Excellent debut directing effort by this outstanding British actress. An autobiographical film focusing on a young girl forced into a children's home by dysfunctional parents. It's not the hellish vision of Dickens' era but these kids are unwanted, unloved, troubled...so they act out in various ways. Watched over by incompetent staff and an indifferent bureaucracy, their physical needs are met but emotionally they are on their own.
Sophisticated direction, editing, mise-en-scene. This was a world-class work that avoided polemics, starred an 11 year old girl who radiated thoughtful intelligence and presented a social issue in such a way to inspire change. Nice job.
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