Impressively devoid of sentimentality, grim in its facts, and moving in its portrait of the determined effort to rescue these young lives.

The Windermere Children told this story as a drama, which is a good thing, as memories can't be allowed to fade, and it all helps, but it was serviceable rather than anything more memorable.

Watching it, I came to regard its longueurs as necessary breathing spaces and its lapses into sentimentality as forgivable.

The film is better when viewed as a family film rather than a drama. [Full Review in Spanish]