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Children of Men
In 2027, where people face a fatal problem, as women will be infertile, the thing that leads them to extinction, so an activist, Thio, does his best, in order to find out a solution and save humanity from such a danger, so he struggles against protecting the only pregnant woman in the world, till delivering the first baby from 18 years.
3 December 1960, Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
27 April 1968, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
18 November 1971, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
10 April 1980, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
15 August 1956, Bielsko-Biala, Slaskie, Poland
23 June 1925, Hampstead, London, England, UK
8 September 1957, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya
11 May 1948, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany
1972, Tunis, Tunisia
14 May 1962, Rome, Lazio, Italy
April 01, 2015
A film that has much to recommend it, not least the proof it offers, as if any more were needed, that Alfonso Cuarón is one of the most visually inspired directors working today.
April 01, 2015
Children of Men is so boldly told, so thought out, so infused with the joy of filmmaking, that it's absolutely exhilarating. It's one of the best movies of the past year.
January 17, 2007
What I find particularly irksome about it is its pseudo-humanism and its calculating political correctness.
April 01, 2015
P.D. James's novel must have made more sense than Cuarón's cheerful but incoherent screen adaptation.
April 01, 2015
Cuarón is implementing a verisimilitude that both matches the film's edge-of-your-seat escalations and demonstrates a new understanding of blockbuster realism.
April 01, 2015
Alfonso Cuaron stages some terrific set-pieces, and the production designers deserve credit for making London in 2027 look like the grunge capital of the world, ie, like now, only more so. One small problem: I didn't believe any of it.
May 15, 2009
Cuaron asks us to find hope in a grim nativity story where a reluctant hero and scared would-be mother try to find shelter in a land that desperately needs a newborn savior.
April 01, 2015
Here is your post-holiday depression pill: Children of Men. Not to relieve depression. To cause it.
January 06, 2007
It's a wow.
October 05, 2007
Cuaron fulfills the promise of futuristic fiction; characters do not wear strange costumes or visit the moon, and the cities are not plastic hallucinations, but look just like today, except tired and shabby.
April 01, 2015
Children of Men founders in its latter moments -- not a lot, but enough. Its failure is less one of plot than of something deeper, a composing idea to undergird the plot.
February 03, 2007
You feel as if you're accompanying a war photographer who's lost a bet. Slogging unflinchingly through humanity's worst hours, the movie laces the narrative's forays into science-fiction grandstanding with a gut-wrenching dynamic.