Lion (2016)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2016
	Director: Garth Davis
	Actors: Sunny Pawar, Abhishek Bharate, Dev Patel, Rooney Mara
	Country: AUS, USA, GB
	Genre: Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 13.02.2017, Schauburg, OV sneak preview, Benghali/Hindi/English version with German subtitles
Synopsis: A five-year-old Indian boy called Saroo (Pawar) gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he (Patel) sets out to find his lost family. On this he is supported by his girlfriend Lucy (Mara).
Review:  The story is amazing and based on a true story. Actually even if not inspired by a true story, it would have been very credible and awakes therefore more easily feelings toward the characters. The adoptions turning good and bad for the children and the parents. Both cases are visible. And then the focus is on the search, the preparation of the return of Saroo to his village. The story is very emotional and dramatic. And uses the fact that the adoption family adopted two Indian children and that both are very different from the beginning. The acting is perfectly appropriate. Dev Patel makes an excellent job as mean brother, as ungrateful son, as lost and searching adult. Unlike Slumodog Millionaire there is no trace of Bollywood, of dancing in the streets. It is really a occidental style movie with Indians and partly in India, but without taking party for or against Indian society. I liked this as well. I prefer the German poster rather than the North American one as it is closer to the real story of the movie, focused on the search by Saroo of his origins and not the romance with Lucy.
Rating: 7 /10 North American poster