[3] The theme was developed by New Zealand director Stanley Harper, but he was fired two weeks before shooting, and John Reid took over the project, introducing the "ghost" element and the two time frames.
[4] Shot in France at Moulin d'Ande and St Pierre du Vauvray with finance raised by Pacific Films, the film had to be finished before the 1984 cut-off date for New Zealand tax breaks.
Murry is presented as struggling with his conscience as he recalls the ill and alone Mansfield (seen in flashbacks), and decides to publish almost all of her work.
She confronts him as "another exploitative male" who makes a sanctimonious speech at the book launch.
criticised the portrayal of Middleton Murry as "simplifying the KM/Murry relationship into a cliché".