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'Listen': Film Review | Venice 2020

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The three children of a poor Portuguese couple (Lucia Moniz and Ruben Garcia) living in London are forcibly removed from their home by social services, raising questions about responsible parenting and duty of care in director Ana Rocha de Sousa's emotive feature debut Listen.

Although the script by Rocha de Sousa, Paula Vaccaro and Aaron Brookner tries to be at least a little bit balanced, the rules-obsessed authorities don’t come out of it well.

Largely told through the eyes of the hapless family, especially those of the deaf middle child (a soulful Maisie Sly), this won’t be winning endorsements from social workers’ unions and professionals in the field anytime soon.

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