
Maya Bankovic’s cinematography and Kurt Walker’s editing does brilliant work in making all this feel like hazy memory, with the dialogue much less important than the sense of mood. It’s the kind of feeling you get on a hot, boring and unimportant day, where the hours stretch out like taffy, except Jeremy is also there, thoughtful and selfish, unpredictable and dangerous. Various social workers chat with the parents about how he is beyond their or anyone’s control, though the mother is mainly concerned about whether anyone thinks she’s a bad mother. When Sasha is an adult (Amy Zimmer), she goes so far as to convene a round table of social workers to discuss the historical case files and ask for their opinions on what might have been done to – well, no spoilers