An ordinary British family and their Japanese friend are accused of murder when a stranger dies at their dinner table.
An assured debut with great performances and a wonderfully odd brand of British humour.
You get your money’s worth of surreal quirk but also pleasingly awkward comedy.
Black Pond is really good: haunting, melancholy and strange.
As a comic portrait of English domestic life it’s up there with Mike Leigh, although the humour, wicked and poker-faced, is a good deal tougher than Leigh’s and, in fact, has more in common with Langham’s television series People Like Us.
General release. Check local listings for show times.