Edge - review

Carol Morley made the impressive Dreams of a Life but this forerunner feature shows little of that quality. In it, a washed-up pop star (Paul Hilton) arrives at the Cliff Edge Hotel, Eastbourne, looking for some sort of inspiration. He meets Maxine Peake’s guilt-ridden Elly, who is desperate to recover from a possibly murky past.

There are others in the hotel, including two unsettled teenagers (Joe Dempsie and Nichola Burley) and an older woman (Marjorie Yates), who eventually sort themselves out and solve a suicide mystery. Unfortunately neither the direction nor the cinematography are up to this sort of chamber work, and the screenplay hardly suffices.