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Sanctuary (15)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Larry and Sophie, two people with intellectual disabilities, long to be together in a world that does everything to keep them apart.
More information on this production is available at www.sanctuaryfilm.co.uk.

The critical consensus

Quietly powerful Irish drama about the challenges faced by a young couple with intellectual disabilities.

***(*)(*)Nikki Baughan, The List, 22/12/2017

The disabled characters are all played by disabled actors which may be why the film feels so true to life.

****(*)Allan Hunter, Daily Express, 22/12/2017

Sanctuary emphasises how unwilling the rest of society is to treat those with learning disabilities as thinking, feeling adults with yearnings and desires of their own.

****(*)Geoffrey Macnab, The Independent, 26/12/2017

Aided by their care worker, a couple in love embark on an illegal tryst in an unsentimental romcom played with terrific gentleness and honesty.

****(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 27/12/2017

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