Oranges and Sunshine (2010)
Country: GB/AUS
Technical: col/2.35:1 100m
Director: Jim Loach
Cast: Emily Watson, Hugo Weaving, David Wenham, Richard Dillane
Synopsis:
Nottingham, the 1980s: a social worker stumbles across a programme of mass deportation of children from the 1950s to the 1970s, when an Australian woman asks her to help find her real mother.
Review:
Low-key factual exposé, triggered no doubt by an official government apology in 2009, in which the stress on family life and personal danger suffered by its crusading central character are played down. The slow simmer approach pays dividends, however, in eschewing melodramatic confrontations and attaining a realist treatment typical of Loach Snr. In addition, the last half-hour accrues dramatic heft when Margaret (Watson's) health deteriorates and she undertakes a cathartic pilgrimage to the site of so much abuse, understanding that she cannot expect to heal the psychological wounds of her subjects.
Country: GB/AUS
Technical: col/2.35:1 100m
Director: Jim Loach
Cast: Emily Watson, Hugo Weaving, David Wenham, Richard Dillane
Synopsis:
Nottingham, the 1980s: a social worker stumbles across a programme of mass deportation of children from the 1950s to the 1970s, when an Australian woman asks her to help find her real mother.
Review:
Low-key factual exposé, triggered no doubt by an official government apology in 2009, in which the stress on family life and personal danger suffered by its crusading central character are played down. The slow simmer approach pays dividends, however, in eschewing melodramatic confrontations and attaining a realist treatment typical of Loach Snr. In addition, the last half-hour accrues dramatic heft when Margaret (Watson's) health deteriorates and she undertakes a cathartic pilgrimage to the site of so much abuse, understanding that she cannot expect to heal the psychological wounds of her subjects.
Country: GB/AUS
Technical: col/2.35:1 100m
Director: Jim Loach
Cast: Emily Watson, Hugo Weaving, David Wenham, Richard Dillane
Synopsis:
Nottingham, the 1980s: a social worker stumbles across a programme of mass deportation of children from the 1950s to the 1970s, when an Australian woman asks her to help find her real mother.
Review:
Low-key factual exposé, triggered no doubt by an official government apology in 2009, in which the stress on family life and personal danger suffered by its crusading central character are played down. The slow simmer approach pays dividends, however, in eschewing melodramatic confrontations and attaining a realist treatment typical of Loach Snr. In addition, the last half-hour accrues dramatic heft when Margaret (Watson's) health deteriorates and she undertakes a cathartic pilgrimage to the site of so much abuse, understanding that she cannot expect to heal the psychological wounds of her subjects.