Hideus Kinky: El viaje de Julia

...a glowing Winslet is delightful, presenting a warm, amusing, touchingly vulnerable and untogether but admirably brave character.

What makes it work is Winslet's performance as a sincere, good person, not terrifically smart, who doggedly pursues her dream and drags along her unwilling children.

The central theme, and the source of some wry humour, is the difficulty of parenting, and specifically the extent to which you should impose your own values on your children.

...this delicate, visually ravishing story of twisted family ties rests on a quartet of phenomenal performances, made more remarkable by the fact that two of them are by young children.