2006
D: Alfonso Cuarón
C: Clive Owen, Maria McErlane, Michael Haughey, Paul Sharma, Miriam Karlin, Michael Caine, Philippa Urquhart, Charlie Hunnam, Tehmina Sunny, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Julianne Moore, Michael Klesic, Martina Messing, Simon Poland, Barnaby Edwards, Danny Huston, Ed Westwick, Valerie Griffiths, Bill Cook, Pam Ferris, Claire-Hope Ashitey, Gary Hoptrough, Maurice Lee, Dhaffer L’Abidine, Bruno Ouvrard, Denise Mack, Jacek Koman, Joy Richardson, Caroline Lena Olsson, Milenka James, Somi Guha, Francisco Labbe, Thorston Manderlay, Georgette Pallard, Peter Mullan, Oana Pellea, Faruk Pruti
W: P.D. James (novel “The Children of Men”); Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby (screenplay)
Original Music: John Tavener
Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki
Editing: Alfonso Cuarón & Alex Rodríguez
Runtime: 109 min
Country: Japan / UK / USA
Language: Serbo-Croatian / German / Italian / Romanian / English / Spanish
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Sound Mix: SDDS / Dolby Digital / DTS
Certification: R
In the near future women the world over have inexplicably become barren. With the human race facing extinction and most nations self-imploding, Britain retains some semblance of order, with a nationalistic regime battling fiercely against unwanted waves of immigrants and an antagonistic revolutionary underground. Enter Theo Faron, a disillusioned one-time activist, who’s roused from his apathetic slumber after discovering that the woman he’s begrudgingly agreed to transport through dangerous territory is pregnant.
If the film has a message I can’t decipher it. The approach is so ambiguous viewers coming from different backgrounds can read into the events whatever they want, hence its unwarranted reputation as being thought-provoking. It’s riddled with plot holes and questionable motivating factors, especially in regards to the Fishes. Griping aside, the film is visually stunning and works superbly as an adrenaline rush (it reminded me a bit of 28 Days Later), and there are some great things in it such as Julianne Moore’s exit, Michael Caine’s eccentric old hippie, and the nail-bitingly suspenseful escape from the safehouse.
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