Peter Blythe

John Mortimer's iconic drama about a down-at-heel barrister, Horace Rumpole. His wife thinks he's been so busy playing parts in courts that he's lost trace of his own identity.

Set in 1929, this adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel of love and obsession stars John Turturro as Alexander Luzhin, a shambling and eccentric chess Grandmaster who arrives in a North Italian lakeside resort to play the match of his career. After a childhood in which passion for chess substituted for the lack of love and affection, into the adult Luzhin's life comes Natalia (Emily Watson), a...