I have a rocky relationship with McEwan's work. I liked Atonement. I loved Amsterdam. I rhapsodised to the point of obsession over Saturday. Other than the startlingly original and funny treatise on the single pubic hair peeping out of the heroine's underwear, I did not like On Chisel ...
但是,这种每天抽出两小时专门阅读的经历又让我无比沉迷,每天都充满着期待。 这个故事太动人,实在是gripping and touching。麦克尤恩的文笔很有个人风格,有的句子需要反复咀嚼。他似乎很少使用所谓的长难句(除却书的前半部分遇到那么一两次令我印象深刻的长难句,的确让我啃了很久),描述时使用的短句更让人读来顿挫,...
a SIFF 2018 review Legal MelodramaThe Children ActShowcases a Stellar Thompson High Court Judge Fiona Maye (Emma Thompson) specializes in juvenile cases, especially as they pertain to the medical profession. The latest case she is presiding over is one of her most challenging, 17-year-old teena...
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The Children Acthas all the ingredients for a thought-provoking and daring, piece of cinema. Instead, it’s focused on the wrong stuff for too long, and aims for emotional manipulation as opposed to intellectual resonance. Flickering Myth Rating– Film: ★★ / Movie: ★★ ...
The Children Act: Directed by Richard Eyre. With Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Reena Lalbihari, Dominic Carter. As her marriage crumbles, a judge must decide a case involving a teenage boy who is refusing a blood transfusion on religious principle.
August 9, 2019David NusairC,Review0 Based on a novel by Ian McEwan,The Children Actfollows British judge Fiona Maye (Emma Thompson) as she rules over a case involving a dying teenager (Fionn Whitehead’s Adam) whose religious parents are preventing him from receiving life-saving treatment. Fi...
The concept of Children in Need: The answer or the problem for family support? This paper attempts to describe and assess the impact of the 1989 Children Act on the family support aspects of statutory child care social work. Having o... J Tunstill - 《Children & Youth Services Review》 ...
Review of the Children (Care And Protection) Act 1987 (NSW)Patrick ParkinsonP Parkinson, The Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998: Overview, 2000, .
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