Children of Men
Feature Film | Alfonso Cuaron
An intense and expertly filmed vision of civilized society near its end.
A futuristic film with a distinct dearth of sci-fi trappings and a chase movie with very little in the way of conventional Hollywood action, Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men masterfully draws viewers into its dark dystopian society with bold, bravura filmmaking. Loosely based on the 1992 novel by P.D. James, the movie is set in England during 2027, an era where mass infertility has placed humanity on a direct path to extinction and societies around the globe have completely broken down. In this bleak mess, disillusioned bureaucrat Theo Faron (Clive Owen) sleepwalks through life until he is roped into an extremely dangerous assignment by his activist ex-wife (Julianne Moore)—he must lead the world's only pregnant woman through the conflict-ravaged country to a safe haven that may or may not exist. Theo inevitably finds himself in a variety of incredibly tense situations, with two extended scenes in particular earning their places on the list of cinema's most thrilling sequences. Criminally overlooked at the box office, Children of Men is not only an apocalyptic classic, it's one of the finest films of the 21st century's first decade.
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