Children of Men: The Long Take as Despair and Hope

Sun, 24 Mar 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men arrived in the autumn of 2006 and did indifferent box office, which now reads like a joke history has been slow to laugh at. Almost twenty years on it is quoted, storyboarded and stolen from constantly, and the phrase people reach for is always the same: the long takes. Everyone remembers the long takes. What they remember less clearly is why a film about the death of the future should feel, minute for minute, more alive than almost anything around it.

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Children of Men: The Long Take as Despair and Hope