The Children Act

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Debra P @Grammy5 Aug 24 Excellent. Well done. Thompson is a treasure See more Lewellen P @Lewellen Jan 20 This film is exceptional. It is societally relevant in representing the soul sickness of young men today. The lack of mentorship, the destruction of our educational systems, the influence of social media and violence, addiction rates all combine to produce a devastating vacancy in young men who are lost and seeking. In addition, it speaks to those who are in various fields such as law and teaching and psychology whose philosophies rarely extend to real help for them. See more Casamh H @RT41323483 08/25/2025 Very good acting and story See more R T @RT32375692 07/08/2025 A mesmerising and haunting performance by Emma Thompson with sound performances also by Stanley Tucci, Fionn Whitehead and Jason Watkins. The complexities of emotion in Ian McEwan‘s novel brought to life on screen. It’s a ‘must see’ in my view! See more James S @RT68870252 06/17/2025 I read Ian McEwan's brilliant book some years ago and this masterpiece truly brings it to life. It really is a powerful and mesmerising film. But the stand out aspect is Emma Thompson's acting - literally off the scale. Even the scoring cues and background music are beautiful. True QUALITY. See more Grania H @RT29003059 09/27/2024 This is a throughly gripping film, both beautiful and profoundly moving. Emma Thompson is excellent as a senior judge who has invested so much of herself into her legal career and judicial persona that she has lost sight of herself. Even her downtime is filled with the rigor of studious piano playing, echoing the order and discipline that form the structure of who she has become. She has sealed herself off from life so successfully that even her husband's pleas for their marriage bounce off her with apparent minimal emotional impact. But the beautiful and inspired youth she meets as a consequence of her deciding a legal dispute over his fate touches her in a way that clearly nothing else had, for many years.. The divine blend of beauty and tragedy that is so hard to capture in any work of art. The impossibility of denying emotion in life is challenged in a surprising, lovely and dreadful way. Great pathos See more Read all reviews

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