My Old Lady
FILM 10.40PM, BBC4
Kevin Kline’s hard-up New Yorker inherits a fabulously valuable apartment in Paris, but can’t shift the tenants – a waspish Maggie Smith and her frosty daughter Kristin Scott Thomas. The set-up yields some highly enjoyable battle-of-wits comedy, performed with lip-smacking relish by the three stars. But just when you think the story is going to proceed on a well-worn, cosily romantic track, the characters unpack their emotional baggage to reveal unexpected depths of feeling. ★★★ JB