A Beautiful Film With a Stunning Emily Watson Performance

Rating: 10/10 (7 July 2015)

An excellent film on many levels and worth seeing for several fine performances. However, it is Emily Watson as the mother who once again proves she is the finest actress of our time. She captures the humanity, warmth, and instincts of her character as the true master she is. It amounts to simply one more stunning performance of power and beauty. Watson has the incredible ability to communicate deep emotion with just a glance and her eyes say more than 50 pages of dialog. There is no denying she is a miraculously gifted actor and too often taken for granted because her quiet beauty and seductiveness is missed by today's cinematically illiterate audiences who wait for the next CGI effect. This is a film that is way over the heads of that crowd and Emily Watson's performance is wasted on them.