{"id":298196,"date":"2026-10-05T16:35:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T16:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/05\/the-lost-children-of-tuam-review-a-sombre\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T16:35:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T16:35:22","slug":"the-lost-children-of-tuam-review-a-sombre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/05\/the-lost-children-of-tuam-review-a-sombre\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Children Of Tuam review \u2013 a sombre\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tco-london.transforms.svdcdn.com\/production\/tco\/images\/Little-White-Lies\/Lost-Children-of-Tuam.jpg?w=2000&amp;h=1500&amp;auto=compress%2Cformat%2Cavif&amp;fit=min&amp;dm=1791194256&amp;s=494ebf29e6be0d43c4c7bae6542af29c\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\">The basic fact of the matter is, if you really want to nudge up the quality or impact of a\u00a0film you\u2019re making \u2013 any film \u2013 then you could do a\u00a0lot worse than hire actor Monica Dolan as your lead. Although the films she tends to star in often aren\u2019t massively high profile, she is \u2013 like the protagonist she plays in Frank Berry\u2019s true-life drama <i>The Lost Children of Tuam <\/i>\u2013 assembling a\u00a0case study whose thesis suggests she\u2019s currently one of the finest and most thoughtful actors working today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">As Galway-based amateur historian Catherine Corless she tamps down the melodrama and ups the raw emotion while working on an investigative essay about possible mass child graves discovered at the long-since-shuttered B\u00f6n Secours Mother and Baby Home in her village of Tuam. In some ways this is a\u00a0film about ways to find new outlets for your passions in later life, and her journey to uncover the truth is never framed as an obsession, more just a\u00a0valuable reason to get up in the morning. The film is a\u00a0simply made procedural that carefully hits all of its expected beats, with Corless eventually locking horns with the nuns whose alleged malpractice her research implicates. Its style and subject matter do make it feel like a\u00a0better fit for the small screen, yet this is a\u00a0surprisingly effective celebration of how determination and diligence are the perfect tools to win any argument, especially when you know you\u2019re right.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-10 bg-[var(--color-background-accent)] font-primary text-[16px] font-bold rounded-[16px] p-8\">\n<h3 class=\"!mb-4 text-[24px]\">Get more Little White\u00a0Lies<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '844332942710770');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/reviews\/the-lost-children-of-tuam\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The basic fact of the matter is, if you really want to nudge up the quality or impact of a\u00a0film you\u2019re making \u2013 any film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":298197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}