Movies

February, 1996

The seething sexuality that England's proper Victorians kept hidden gives Angels & Insects (Samuel Goldwyn) plenty of emotional sting. Director Philip Haas, co-adapter with his wife, Belinda, of a novella by A.S. Byatt, presents a tantalizing family drama about love, lies and lurid secrets. Patsy Kensit stars as Eugenia, a well-bred beauty who sets her sights on a penniless explorer named William (Mark Rylance) as he works with her father on his collection of rare bugs. Even after William marrie...