For chocolate lovers everywhere - although Vivien Eliot's Dairy Milk
revenge will put you off TS Eliot for life. Even Willem Dafoe's
sensitive performance as the poet cursed with poor taste in women can't
rehabilitate this J'Accuse which does for Eliot what Ariel did for Ted
Hughes. The development of The Waste Land becomes secondary to the
progress of Vivien's instability - Miranda Richardson in fine fettle,
giving the impression of a woman born before her time and condemned to
suffer for her intelligence. Dafoe and Richardson spark off each other
from the risque outset to the chilling finale.
