Watching this film online (my monthly freebie from my bank) provided a pleasant escape from the harsh realities of the Second National Lockdown, but it was spoiled by the inevitable intrusion of 2020 woke values in a film supposedly set in a quite different era. Not only was the love of the central character's life rather unrealistically a woman of evidently mixed race, but near the beginning this particular pc lily was gilded by the equally unnecessary casting of an Indian woman and her child for their brief appearance as customers in a village shop in deepest east Kent. And in the early years of WW2 would a well-grown boy of 11 or 12 have been automatically consigned to the back of the car when the front passenger seat was unoccupied? (It was difficult to work out how old he was in fact supposed to be; the one piece of class instruction we saw was more appropriate for children of 7 or 8.)
Review of Summerland
