Saint Aborta and the Molesters

Mike Leigh, one of Britain’s socialist directors, begins and ends his latest effort, Vera Drake, with plangent harp strings backed by a keening choir. It is music orchestrated to canonize his title character, who is, in a very modern sense of an old-fashioned word, a saint.

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