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Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Writer(s): Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, P.D. James
Cast: Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Awards: Nominated for Academy Awards in Adapted Screenplay, Achievement in Film Editing, and Achievement in Cinematography (2007)
Children of Men envisages a world one generation from now that has fallen into anarchy on the heels of an infertility defect in the population. The world’s youngest citizen has just died at 18, and humankind is facing the likelihood of its own extinction. Set against the backdrop of London torn apart by violence and nationalistic sects, the film follows disillusioned bureaucrat Theo (Owen) as he becomes an unlikely champion of Earth’s survival.
Presented with FREE ADMISSION by the College of Arts & Sciences’ Knowing the Future theme. Check out more films showing this semester as part of the Knowing the Future Series.
“Thrilling, important, and invigoratingly bleak, Children of Men is one of the very best movies to come out in 2006.” -Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
“An audacious, exhilarating futuristic thriller.” -Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
“Despite the bleakness of its vision, Children of Men is also thrilling, both for its groundbreaking style (there are action sequences here unlike any filmed before) and its complex, vividly realized ideas.” -Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
“This dystopian masterpiece of misery kept me wound up for hours after the credits rolled.” -Mark Rahner, Seattle Times
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