The reliable character actor leads this Liam Neeson-produced biopic of Catherine Corless, the local historian who uncovered the unacknowledged deaths of 796 children in her Galway hometown.
By Guy Lodge
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Element Pictures Ireland’s ongoing artistic reckoning with the Catholic Church’s gross mistreatment of unmarried mothers and their children — as addressed in such films as “The Magdalene Sisters,” “Philomena” and “Small Things Like These” — continues in “The Lost Children of Tuam.” A restrained but deeply affecting drama that keeps the horrors of the past largely unseen, instead tracing a contemporary woman’s growing awareness of vast tragedy buried in her hometown, Frank Berry‘s film is ripped from recent headlines: Viewers may recall the international media coverage of local historian Catherine Corless’ discovery that hundreds of children had been buried in an unmarked grave on the former site of a Catholic mother and baby home in Tuam, Galway.
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