Slightly strange story about the last day of term in a boys’ public school in the 1950s. The unpopular classics master is leaving; his colleagues and students see him as unemotional, almost ‘dead’ emotionally, but his real self emerges in various ways.

We meet his unbelievably ghastly wife, a boy in his class who’s fairly empathic and also quite likes classics, a colleague who has been conducting an affair with his wife, and more. Acting is good, in a 1950s kind of way, once you get past the pseudo-BBC accents, and the directing is good too. The people are believable and the flow works well. It’s just rather a depressing story without any clear conclusion.

Black and white. Three and a half stars, really.