Directed by Richard Eyre, “My Lady” is a 2018 film in which Emma Thompson plays a High Court Judge tasked with deciding a legal case that could change the life of a teenager.
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My Lady is a legal drama released in 2018 in France. Directed by Richard Eyre, the film follows the dilemma of a High Court magistrate (Emma Thompson) responsible for deciding on a delicate case: a teenager refuses to receive the transfusion that could save his life. She decides to meet him before making her decision. In the casting, the British actress responds to Stanley Tucci but also Fionn Whitehead.
If My Lady tells a legal drama, it is not directly the transposition to the screen of a true story. This is the adaptation of a novel by Ian McEwan, to whom we already owe Come back to me (adaptation of his work Atonement). This time it’s his work The best interests of the child (The Child Act in reference to a law dating from 1989 which placed the interests of the child above all considerations in the case of a family conflict) which is put on the screen.
However, this does not mean that My Lady takes all liberties. Ian McEwan wrote his novel after meeting judges at a dinner, during which he was also able to read a book which records the decisions of a famous court of appeal judge, Sir Alan Ward. In comments transcribed on the site Allocinatedhe remembers that “these were not criminal cases where you have to decide whether a man is the culprit or the victim. Nothing so Manichean. They were simply family matters, everyday accidents “.
To inform his film, director Richard Eyre and Emma Thompson attended court hearings: “it’s a much more upsetting experience than the criminal, it seems to me,” said the filmmaker. There is no of crime, but a terrible chaos in daily lives where people who loved each other are torn apart and it lasts for hours and days, during which we dissect the details of each existence. The judge must have nerves of steel to do this. in the face of such violent feelings…”
Synopsis – Should we force a teenager to receive the transfusion that could save him? Fiona Maye, Judge of the High Court, decides to visit him, before making a decision. Their meeting will change the course of things.