Leave All Fair

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

– The real life Katherine Mansfield, to John Middleton Murry

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