...well made and well-intentioned.

With terrific warmth and idealism – and irresistible storytelling relish – director Amma Asante gives us a romantic true story from our dowdy postwar past.

Director Amma Asante, who is fresh off her critical success with Belle, has an enormous amount of material here. She does a first-rate job balancing the film’s romantic and political elements.

...a story that deserves to be told.

Det är rakt igenom välspelat…

...en velment og smukt fremstillet beretning om kampen for menneskerettigheder og demokrati i et fattigt/fattigt undertrykt land.

...dygtige Rosamund Pike og David Oyelowo [evner] at uddybe figurernes kemi, som filmen skrider frem...

…ett varmt drama om två människors omöjliga kärlek i en tid av rasism och segregation…