A very fine film -packed with emotion: The subject matter is daunting and evocative to haunt the painful memory of the emigration of children from UK to Australia. A film very well crafted together in story telling in compassion in an investigation of enforced adoption and loss of what happened to the children and their UK families.
Jim Loach ( as director ) has a flair for conveying a tragic loss and upheaval of home life -without boarding upon casual sentiment.: An absorbing film that flows into a striking, cinematic vision of oneness - with attractive music that is softly beautiful: Jim Loach is gifted in visualizing the story to cinema: Oranges and Sunshine was not the promised land for the children, but one of pain, fear and abuse...
Jim Loach ( as director ) has a flair for conveying a tragic loss and upheaval of home life -without boarding upon casual sentiment.: An absorbing film that flows into a striking, cinematic vision of oneness - with attractive music that is softly beautiful: Jim Loach is gifted in visualizing the story to cinema: Oranges and Sunshine was not the promised land for the children, but one of pain, fear and abuse...