The Unloved - Channel 4 last night.

[citizenED]

I didn't manage to catch all of this, but saw the last half and was mesmerised. Amazingly haunting and incredibly still and becalmed. The lead lead actress is something special. There is a scene about an hour in where the girl absconds from the care home and goes walk about in night-time Nottingham that was truly memorable. About ten minutes long, with no dialogue or voiced narrative - just perfect images and soundtrack saying more than any diatribe.

You can see the whole film on the Channel 4 website; here

[bawdy-nan]

Its extraordinarily good I think but utterly heartbreaking.

[david_carnell]

I watched all of it. It was unremittingly bleak and not exactly Sunday night viewing.

It was certainly well acted and had aesthetic charm, if you will, but I felt the storyline dragged and the script too minimal to sustain a full two hours. It did however highlighted an area of society I think many of us turn a blind-eye to and should be applauded for that.

On reflection, my biggest issue was that it was directed by Samantha Morten, a successful actress. It was based on her own experiences and made me keep having to try and forget that the girl on screen would go on to be just fine. A tricky one to pull off.

On balance though, I think it is what Channel 4 do best and exemplifies intelligent film making rather than mind-numbing reality, property, How-clean-is-your-celebrity nonsense that populates BBC1 and ITV all too often.

[mockney piers]

Just fine in the sense of a two year hiatus because of a nervous breakdown based upon her childhood experinces. Agree though that it wasn't right for a tired Sunday night.

If we just make this a last night on channel four thread, did anyone catch 1066? I thought it was rather good at giving you a sense of what Britain would have been like. It never occurwd to me that Stamford Bridge really would have been that piddly!