After accusing a tax-and-spend Democratic administration of being too soft on welfare cheats, stroppy students and violent blacks, Reagan won by almost 1m votes, or almost exactly the margin by which Brown had beaten Knowland to win the governorship eight years earlier.
Both Benjamentas exhibit a rather unhealthy interest in a new student named Jakob (Mark Rylance), and for a hundred and five minutes the three main characters drift through stark rooms and impossibly long corridors (photographed, in luminous black-and-white, by Nic Knowland) in a bizarre erotic reverie.