THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY (THE IMPOSSIBLE)
Last Sunday, I fully intended to go to see 'Lincoln' or ' Les Miserables '. But such is the popularity of those Oscar nominated movies right now that both screenings were sold out in the Omniplex in Lisburn. Not wanting to waste my journey, I plumped instead for 'The Impossible' - a film which I had hoped to see in recent weeks but had become resigned to catching on DVD because of competing demands on my time. Based on the real life experiences of Dr Maria Belon Alvarez and her family, this Spanish-made docudrama deals with the horrific events of 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami in the Indian Ocean which devastated parts of Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India and many other nations. Juan Antonio Bayona, it's Catalan director, came to international attention five years ago with his remarkable horror movie ' The Orphanage ' about a woman who is flummoxed when her adopted son vanishes. Bayona taps into similar separation anxieties in his lates