![]() ![]() Meanwhile, at home, her marriage with her academic husband, Jack (Stanley Tucci), is falling apart, largely, it seems, due to her workload. Fiona toils away as a kind of mundane Solomon, passing the judgment over the most emotional and impactful questions of people’s lives. At the film’s opening, she’s working on one involving the separation of two conjoined twins, a procedure that will inevitably kill one of them, but the failure to do so will kill both of them. Most of the cases she takes on involve the life and death of children. ![]() It’s a wan, sapped atmosphere, making the life, faith, and literal blood of a 17-year-old boy all the more stark a line to run through it.Įmma Thompson plays Fiona Maye, a high court judge in London. In the hands of Iris and Notes on a Scandal director Richard Eyre, McEwan’s story is stagy and austere, taking place in gleaming flats and spotless courtrooms, like a Nancy Meyers movie with more court wigs. The questions raised by The Children Act, adapted by Ian McEwan from his own 2014 novel, are good ones, though hard ones to dramatize in a way that doesn’t come off as too didactic. But there’s plenty of moral agony to be tapped from the plight of a judge who finds herself essentially wielding the power of God. They more often act as the literal or figurative hands of fate, something for louder and far more cinematic lawyers to rail at or against. Judges, outside of recent current events, are rarely the heroes of our stories. ![]()
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