Not a masterpiece but no disaster. The main flaw for me was that so much of the ground was well travelled - a memory play of the past narrated by a writer, a boarding house run by a crazy old day, the bisexual stud with a sado masochistic relationship with a dying woman, the Williams surrogate, a sick old painter.
There's some developments - more swearing (the f**k word), more obviously gay (the painter seduces the writer). The girl Jane and the stud Tye seem like a young Stella and Stanley complete with marital rape.
It's a lot of short scenes, it doesn't really build or even interconnect - Jane and Tye barely have anything to do with the Writer for instance. It doesn't build to anything, there's no melodramatic secret or reveal, say. But the writing is strong. It has some effective scenes such as the gay seduction and Miss Nightingale and the writer.
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