This is an American independent film starring Tilda Swinton, of which she was also an Executive Producer. The film is largely shot in natural light with very good and versatile hand-held cinematography, but the disadvantage of that is that many scenes are so badly lit that they are far too dark. And sometimes the cast do not articulate sufficiently for everything they say to be understood; this is of course in complete contrast to the perfect articulation of the highly-trained Tilda Swinton herself, who plays a forensic psychologist conducting a pre-trial examination of a girl being tried for murdering her illegitimate baby at birth. Swinton is very good, as she always is. The girl being interviewed is pregnant and so is Swinton, and Swinton has her own deep issues and also her own secret. So there is an ingenious parallelism going on here. Both of them are struggling with a pregnancy, one of 26 weeks and the other of 29 weeks, and both have really big issues and are guilty of concealment. The film is directed by a woman, Hilary Brougher, and is sensitively approached by females for females, thus avoiding any contamination by male prurience. In fact, many men would not be interested in seeing this film, so far is it from their 'world', and thus so entirely incomprehensible to the more macho types. The world of pregnancy is pretty much a closed female world rarely entered into by men, except for those husbands who like to share the experience with their wives. Amber Tamlyn plays the young girl with convincing intensity, and was aged 19 but looking much younger. This is a powerful film.
