Bea says: Seen without Cecil, with friends at Sydney’s wonderful Govinda’s Cinema; think floor cushions and a big screen above a Hare Krishna restaurant.
This film has been hyped and I am often
wary of hyped films, although sometimes they work out and this one certainly
did. It is a fantastic, involving story
which doesn’t shy away from presenting the difficulties of international
adoption, and family life in general; the main character “Lion” was lost, not
orphaned, and the second adoption made by his new family was certainly very
troubling indeed.
A side note for me was
how digital technology has changed our lives; Lion tracks down his origin
family using Google Earth – something that wouldn’t have been possible any
earlier in history, and although of course there was barely a dry eye in the
house at his reunion with his mother I was very moved by her statement that she
had deliberately never moved from the village, in case he came back.
Good performances throughout, including
Nicole Kidman (wearing some great 80s fashion I must say!), and some lovely
Tasmanian scenery too.
Highly recommended.
****
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