Incredible performances by Emma Thompson, Fionn Whitehead and Stanley Tucci. Such a tragic story and moral dilemma.

The actual story had very little to do with the movie blurb. Sure that happened but it wasn’t much of a decision because was a high court judge she did pretty much what you’d expect .. she followed the law. Otherwise the story felt disjointed from what it was really about .. the collapse of her marriage and the fallout of the court ruling and how they collide. I love Emma Thompson and Stanley Tucci .. they have good chemistry together and I enjoyed watching them together but overall the movie was only fair.

Not the film I expected; it goes beyond courtroom drama to something a little more bizarre, and yet quite fascinating. Thompson is superb, as is Whitehead, and the film itself is solid. It should have gone a little deeper with the themes it presents, but perhaps the novel the film is based on explores further.