We Brits sometimes complain that Hollywood tends to give a simplistic, sentimentalised picture of our country, painting it as Ye Olde Merrie Englande where everyone is either an aristocrat living in a stately home or a contented peasant living in an idyllic thatched cottage with roses round the door, and to ignore the complexities of real British society. "A Gift for Heidi", however, shows that we are not the only European country to suffer such cinematic misrepresentation.
Unhappily the print I saw of this movie had gone soft and scratchy. Even with that discounted, this is a peculiar production.
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