Diana Bentley and Tim Dowler-Coltman as brother and sister Helen and Liam in Orphans. Born out of a rash of headlines about racially motivated acts of violence, Orphans arrives at another moment when anti-Muslim and anti-black crimes are embedded deep in mainstream consciousness. Orphans has contemporary relevance, even if it doesn’t necessarily make the same bold statement it may have in London in 2009. (It’s, sadly, not shocking to learn that upper class liberals are capable of violence when frightened or threatened by a faceless enemy.) As the lights came up, I realized I had been holding tightly to the neckline of my shirt.

Source: thestar April 13, 2017 18:22 UTC