Oranges and Sunshine
- sombre
- measured
Sombre, measured, measured drama / history, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of children from the United Kingdom to Australia and other Commonwealth countries. Almost singlehandedly, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice.
Our read · Oranges and Sunshine (2010) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · history entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Oranges and Sunshine
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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