Kate Winslet is brilliant, but there is never a moment where she finds out anything about her fellow actors; even Emma Thompson, whom he clearly adores, is chided for schoolmarming on the set of Sense and Sensibility.

on the port side

If she'd managed to ball-bust him, she must've done allright.

It was a lean Jewish face, with a great fuzzy aureole of white hair and a small goatee beard […]