Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me; Missed Call

“So many celebrity documentaries are carefully curated and primped — vanity boxes for the preening subject. But with this one, peppered with wobbling, jerky footage from [Simon] Draper’s phone, it felt as if we were getting the unguarded Margolyes. Yes there was the performative one who will say things to shock in a cut-glass accent, and the one who’ll happily tell anyone who asks how much money she makes, unlike 99 per cent of the celebrity population. (She said she had earned £300,000 from doing brief cameo recordings for fans at £100 a pop.) But it also showed us the vulnerable Margolyes, the one who admitted, “I’m anxious and I’m frightened,” before she went for a risky spinal injection to relieve her back pain.”
Carol Midgley, The Times

“Draper is a different sort of supplicant, a beta-bloke in pursuit of a payday. After two years traipsing after her, the podcast has gone nowhere, but he has gathered enough material to cobble together a late-life epitaph of a woman who refuses to go quietly. “What do you think of the film?” he asks her when it’s over. “It’s me, and I love me,” she says, nothing if not honest. “I don’t know if everyone will be as much in love with me as I am.” Indisputably, Margolyes adds to the gaiety of the nation, but I’m relieved this hour-long curio is, like her, a one-off.”
Jasper Rees, Telegraph

“It’s all heating up nicely. The coach driver has a secret, the French couple and their own daughter know more than they’re saying, and the teacher is mooching around grave-yards instead of keeping an eye on the pupils. Most ominous of all, Robert Lindsay is sitting in the old town square in a white fedora, sipping pastis. He’s another dynamite actor. The second episode is tonight, and I expect him to go off with a bang.”
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail