Eternal Beauty. Jane (Sally Hawkins)
Eternal Beauty

Eternal Beauty

  • 2020 film

Sally Hawkins plays a woman with schizophrenia. Also features David Thewlis, Billie Piper, Penelope Wilton, Alice Lowe and Robert Aramayo

  • Repeated Sunday 7th April at 11:45pm on BBC2

Press clippings

Eternal Beauty review

A bold but jarring sketch of schizophrenia.

Wendy Ide, The Guardian, 4th October 2020

Eternal Beauty review

Craig Roberts's fantasy conjures surreal images and magnetic performances.

Owen Richards, The Arts Desk, 2nd October 2020

Eternal Beauty review

Sally Hawkins shines in audacious, offbeat triumph.

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 2nd October 2020

Eternal Beauty review

Sally Hawkins's enthralling performance doesn't rely on the same old tropes - it stays truthful to psychological reality.

Clarisse Loughrey, The Independent, 1st October 2020

Eternal Beauty review

A scattershot endurance test.

Kevin Maher, The Times, 1st October 2020

Eternal Beauty review

Eternal Beauty is a pleasingly strange and inventive comedy drama.

Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 1st October 2020

Eternal Beauty review

Sally Hawkins provides a masterclass in generating tears and laughter, occasionally in the space of a single scene.

Jeremy Aspinall, Radio Times, 1st October 2020

Eternal Beauty review

Directors dealing with mental illness can often make you wince, treating it as an invitation to all manner of visual hammery. Still in his twenties, Roberts is seasoned enough not to follow suit.

Danny Leigh, The Financial Times, 30th September 2020

Eternal Beauty review

Craig Roberts' oddball comedy ambitiously tries to portray mental illness from the inside out, but despite a fine cast, it doesn't hold together.

Guy Lodge, Variety, 30th September 2020

Eternal Beauty review

A brilliant Sally Hawkins stands atop Craig Roberts' perceptive look at mental illness. Small but beautifully formed.

Ian Freer, Empire, 28th September 2020

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