No Night Is Too Long (2002)

Excellent but underrated film

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Blistering performances.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

marvellous film making is the only way to describe this film. Such a flawed beautiful love, for Marc the new boyfriend had been prostituting himself probably since he was a child on the living on the beachfront:so for our anti hero this is his family life. Our doomed learned lover astute this and prostitution is where the money kept in the transformed book comes. Just fabulous how this story is portrayed. the thread of sex relations in the lead actors' school to eventuating in the excess enthusiasm for Isabel. the actors are superb. photography, editing, bravo. i have seen a couple of these quality bbc productions and they are each astoundingly superb. Bravo both leads are astoundingly good and this film needs to be extensively seen and subtitled. Only the English could do such good drama.i'm reading ruth rendell. [email protected]

the very first time I saw this movie I was shocked for the sex scenes and don't really believe I'd like it. the second time I saw it I was with a friend and we spent part of the movie discussing Ivo and Tim's relationship. its an amazing movie, excellent actors and great scenery,so well written that you actually felt for this guys. the feelings and all the emotional stress that the characters suffer from the beginning to the end its palpable, I personally believe that any person can relate this movie to their own love-lives. Tim (Lee Williams) was portrayed with such grace and amazing ability that I actually can't see the actor, every tear, every gesture was superb. the growing of the character during the story and the changes, I'll just say that if this guy decide to work more often he'll be one of the finest actors of this century. And Ivo(Marc Warren) at first I thought he was an abusive selfish brute, at the end I really liked him more than Tim. I've never read the book because I couldn't find it yet, I'm still looking for it. In my opinion is SO much better than Brokeback mountain.

No night's too long is a fantastic thriller/romance in all dimensions. I was captivated by the entire film, not once bored or hurrying the ending.I first saw it on channel 4 (UK) about 16 months ago and I am desperate to know if it has/or is to come out on VHS or DVD? I have looked on numerous websites and asked at video shops but nobody seems to know anything of it, I really want to get hold of it especially as my partner doesn't believe me when I say it's great and I would love him to see it too.I would, obviously, reccomend this film to anybody who has not yet had the pleasure of watching it, it is a memorable film that wont be gotten out of your head anytime soon. Please leave a message on here if you know anything about purchasing it...

POSSIBLE PLOT SPOILERS? I very nearly didn't watch, this but in the end I'm very glad I did, I was enthralled from the beginning to the end. Tim Cornish who was surprisingly well acted by Lee Williams - who I'd last seen in a fairly awful Beatles film is a fairly shallow but gorgeous, (well Williams is a bit too pretty for my likes but anyway!) university student who becomes attracted to a male university professor called Ivo Steadman. This attraction though initially obsessive in time reveals itself to be shallow because it evaporates when Ivo admits he loves Tim because the sense of mystery is gone. This leads Tim into the arms of a woman called Isabel and to the decision that he must get out of his relationship with Ivo in any way he can even if that means killing him. The acting especially from Marc Warren who is sublime as Ivo is what really made this special and all in all this is a good adaptation of a wonderful Barbara Vine book.In fact i can't speak too highly of Warren the sarcasm and the melancholy but also the great hopeless affection for Tim the way he loves him despite all he has done are all transported perfectly from the book to this teleplay. i guess that was down to a really good bit of casting. All in all i can't say anything more than i thought it was very good well adapted - (yes I read the book - in 2 days i might add) - that's how good it was! and well acted.