Review of Oranges and Sunshine (2010) by Sharon A — 23 Jan 2013

I was more impressed than Ian Bain with this. I have a thing about Emily Watson, she is such a good actor. The underlying story is outrageous: even though perhaps only a small percentage of the deported children were maltreated or wrongly removed from their birth families, the policies in which the British and Australian governments colluded were cynical and self-serving in the extreme, and their later denial of responsibility makes it all the worse.

A good effort by Jim Loach. Hugo Weaving did well to look less like Hugo Weaving, too.