Decent 10 minutes at start and end....

Rating: 3/10 (20 February 2017)

Shame about the hour and three-quarters in the middle.
Lots of lovely stuff in this film, but as a story, it really dragged in the middle. Cutting it by 20-30 minutes, all from the middle bit, would have improved it tremendously.
Beautifully shot, the opening part of the film is superb - a real sense of the desolation of the young, charming child is established. But as the film goes on, and on, and on, and on, we lose all sense of empathy with our main protagonist, and the lovely ending is almost lost in the rush to leave the cinema because of the sheer tedium and ennui of the middle section.