Comment by Magic Marmalade:
Try as I might, I always get this muddled in my brain with Howard's End - Doh!
But this is an absolute masterpiece of depiction of tortured, unspoken, unacknowledged love - It's always there between Hopkins' and Thompson's characters, like a thick, heavy fog of love, and both pretending they don't see it, because they feel they can't due to circumstance.