The last segment of Gerry O'Hara's social drama trilogy deals with the affair of Len (Tom Bell), a happily married man and Val (Olivia Hussey), a 15-year old schoolgirl. Whereas O'Hara's first film That Kind of Girl displayed a considerable moral zeal, this goes to the other extreme. Len is deceitful on all fronts and even introduces his young friend to the marital bad while his wife (Judy Carne) is away. His indifference to morality is staggering. Normally characters behaving in this manner would be hung drawn and quartered further down the narrative line, but not here. This non-judgemental aspect of the film is refreshing, though it does mean an almost total lack of drama. Everybody's happy, where's the story? Some compensation can be had in the keenly observed period detail and the excellent cast, but Scenes From a Marriage this isn't.
Review of All the Right Noises
