Wish You Were Here

Wish You Were Here is the story of Lynda's messy coming of age. It's a movie to cherish -- bouyant, affecting, one of a kind.

As Lynda, the belligerent, exhibitionist daughter of a strait-laced British shopkeeper, Lloyd is electrifying. She's a foul-mouthed Hayley Mills.

Idyllic despite its inherent naughtiness, Wish You Were Here is a raunchy postcard from an age that exists largely now for filmakers to make of it what they want.

Just as Lynda's language is an affront to her neighbors, so is Leland's film an enthusiastic assault on the excessive gentility of so much British filmmaking.

Wish You Were Here may always be thought of as the movie that first gave us Emily Lloyd. Or as David Leland's first directing achievement.

What makes it interesting is the character of the heroine; her refreshing rudeness disconcerts those around her.

Wish You Were Here is a funny, sad story, every bit as wistful as the title.

...grows more and more absorbing as it progresses...

It has a strange iconoclast charm. [Full Review in Spanish]

Newcomer Emily Lloyd, blond and mischievously lovely, is heartbreaking and irritating in equal parts as the hedonistic Lynda.