Little Children

Posted 21 January 2007 in Screening log

2006 / Todd Field

Principal Cast Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson, Jennifer Connelly, Jackie Earle Haley
Writing Credits Todd Field & Tom Perrotta
Country US
Genre drama
Links IMDb

What I love most about this film is how it plays with the viewer’s expectations. It sets you up to expect the cinematic thing, then goes and does a very real thing instead. Changes in tone are unexpected, but natural. Narration alternately unnecessary and very clever. Overall a quiet and subtly disturbing film that ultimately affirms the choices we make to survive.

 

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