Sally Potter's film follows a day in the life of Leo (Javier Bardem) and his daughter, Molly (Elle Fanning), as he floats through alternate lives he could have lived, leading Molly to wrestle with her own path as she considers her future. Read Common Sense Media's Sweetness in the Belly review, age rating, and parents guide. How does being of English heritage distinguish Lilly from her Ethiopian friends and neighbors?
If "Sweetness in the Belly" winds up feeling more empathetic than it is moving, the problem lies largely with its protagonist Lilly, a young woman swept up in complex, fascinating social turmoil who never quite emerges as complex or fascinating herself. She's played with quiet diligence by Dakota Fanning. Please subscribe for more bad movie review, parody, and general entertainment videos.
Sweetness in the Belly plays like a film made by good, well-intentioned people who have already thought all of the above arguments through and still feel no closer to knowing how to balance commercial appeal, quality control and political correctness any better than the rest of us. Sweetness in the Belly is close to being a good movie. There are definite moments that are genuinely affecting and overall the film is well-directed by Zeresenay Berhane Mehari and well-acted by its cast. But it makes poor choices in what to focus on, and it never adequately explores its central character. Per a review in the Guardian at the book's release, "Lily, the white outsider, the devout Muslim, the foreigner who sticks out like a sore thumb, immerses Therein lies the problem with the premise of Sweetness In the Belly. Making a movie about Ethiopia that still centers on a white female lead just.
Trailer Sweetness in the Belly
To watch the movie we just need to verify you are not a robot. Lilly, orphaned as a child, experiences her parents homeland of England, escaping civil war. She becomes the heart of a disenfranchised community in London, where she attempts to reunite people with their families.
Based on the novel by Camilla Gibb, Lilly is an English child abandoned in Africa, forced to flee Ethiopia for England amid civil war. Sweetness in the Belly is an Irish-Canadian production. It is a HanWay Films and Entertainment One presentation of a Sienna Films and Parallel Films production, with the participation of Telefilm Canada, Eurimages, Ontario Creates and Screen Ireland. In addition to Fanning, it co-stars Wunmi Mosaku, Kunal Nayyar, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.