Saturday, 15 July 2017

Philomena

(Stephen Frears/2013/UK)

Not many films make me cry, this did. Maybe it’s the relevance with recent revelations in Ireland but the poignancy and pathos achieved strikes home. Coogan and Dench deliver powerhouse performances, retrained and hammy enough to bring you in and leave you open for the inevitable. I’m skirting around spoiling a well known story but it’s that good. A true story, very affecting and only a skim of the surface of the tragedies of the laundries in this country.

(4/5)

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