Leave All Fair

Lushly photographed, the film is as gentle and nuanced as Mansfield’s own writings, and the scenes between Gielgud and Birkin play with subtlety and insight … This is a refreshing, intelligent film… It’s a class act all the way.

– Variety's review of the film, 22 May 1985

It's a funny place. We all say we love it — so many of us leave. But it's still home. You never really get away.

– Marie Taylor (Jane Birkin) on New Zealand

We are both abnormal. I have too much vitality and you have not enough.

– The real life Katherine Mansfield, to John Middleton Murry