Film seco, sin concesiones ni filtros, sobre la búsqueda que emprende un padre y una madre de sus respectivos hijos desaparecidos durante un atentado terrorista en Londres. De esas historias fuertes que no necesitan de gran presupuesto para ser contadas y que terminan siendo tan efectivas como cualquier película de suspenso con gran producción. En línea similar (historia distinta) a la iraní Una Separación, la anécdota de A la Orilla del Río se sostiene por las espléndidas actuaciones de sus…

London River follows two very different parents searching for their missing children after the London terrorist attacks of 2005. Rather than exploring the wider story this is a very intimate and small film about a desperate determination and challenging racial prejudices.

Brenda Blethyn plays a widow looking for her daughter who she believes has been caught up in the attacks. Blethyn is always brilliant at playing women desperately trying to hold onto their emotions and her performance here is predictably…

I really hate it when an incredible performance is housed within a sub-standard narrative. Blethyn is extraordinary in her role here, the ignorance of her character that might make her a difficult sell to an audience easily overcome with the emotional intensity of the woman's every word. I was captivated to no end by the enormity of the performance, but the problems of the narrative make it just a little wasted. It all seems to neat, too simple, too much…

I love this film. It's a very simple story of a mother (the always fantastic Brenda Blethyn) who hears about the bus bombings in London, leaves messages for her daughter in London to call her back, and when she doesn't hear anything for a while she decides to go to London and find out what's going on. She encounters the odd looking African Ousmane (Sotigui Kouyaté) and in lovely scenes we see this small town woman's prejudices and fear of…