The moment devours his life. ‘The Child In Time’ is based on the 1987 novel of the same name by author Ian McKewen, whose books also inspired films ‘Atonement’ and ‘Enduring Love’. “Keep breathing”. She has written about TV, film and books for Den of Geek since 2010, and for… "The Child in Time" opens with a harrowing event. He and director Julian Farino (At the forefront is Stephen’s emotional trek from devastation to cautious rebirth. Directed by Julian Farino. Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children's books, takes his three-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. So there’s something near-miraculous about the performances in “The Child in Time,” Sunday’s “Masterpiece” presentation featuring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kelly Macdonald in a story that both viewer and performer might approach with trepidation: During a routine trip to the supermarket, the 4-year-old daughter of the well-known children’s book writer Stephen Lewis (Mr. Cumberbatch) simply disappears. She’s somewhere, the film suggests, in time, existing and not existing, all ages and none. The final words from Benedict Cumberbatch’s character in A Child In Time are a summary of its message. The Child book. More patient still is Thelma (Saskia Reeves, whose thoughtful performance sells this very odd situation), who waits for her husband to come out of his regression, but has to bury him before he does.It’s unnerving how fully Campbell Moore commits to Charles’ humorous schoolboy scenes. This review contains spoilers. I read and quite enjoyed The Widow, by the same author, so I was expecting so much better from The Child. The comic moments cut through what could have been a suffocatingly sad hour and a half.Survival is the thematic thrust. Just like that. “The Child in Time” is in no way a conventional story. It’s a story that leans heavily on Cumberbatch, and one he handles well. With Benedict Cumberbatch, Kelly Macdonald, Stephen Campbell Moore, Saskia Reeves. While waiting in line, his attention is distracted and his daughter is kidnapped. Read 4,445 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. The life of a children's book author is … The BBC adaptation of Ian McEwan’s The Child In Time is a sensitively told story about resilience. His smile, his excitement, his lope… he It’s a mournful film, but a hopeful one, like its simple piano and string score. A sense of loss pervades this fine, provocative new novel by the author of The Comfort of Strangers. When Charles (Stephen Campbell Moore) retreats into a complicated fantasy life as a pre-pubescent child, Stephen is exasperated but patient. The final words from Benedict Cumberbatch’s character in When their three year old daughter Kate goes missing from a busy supermarket, central characters Stephen and Julie (Cumberbatch and Kelly Macdonald) suffer the kind of loss from which recovery seems impossible. But, oh, what a waste of time it turned out to be; pages and pages of cliched, one-dimensional, inter changeable characters, and a thoroughly un-engaging reporter bringing the strands of the story to a conclusion that was as obvious as it was …

He learns how to keep loving his daughter even though she’s not there. The script is earnest, and keeps mawkishness at bay with a sense of humour. Louisa Mellor is the Den of Geek UK TV Editor. It’s not a search or pursuit; it’s not a mystery, per se. She spends the film both alive and dead, a presence and an absence.Aptly for a story about the oddities of time, the film flits back and forth along Stephen’s timeline, starting with the most devastating moment in the aftermath of Kate’s disappearance, jolting forward to years later, then back and forward again.

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