Lion (2016 Garth Davis)

Unusual to find a film where I knew not one name behind the camera. I was wondering about photographer Greig Fraser when I noticed little Sunny Pawar cross a station platform with no head, but then was struck by a rather well composed and lit shot in which a bus disappears under a bridge and on the extreme other side of the frame, Sunny emerges from the darkness, caught rather badly by this screen shot:

Things pick up for the lad when he's adopted by Nicole Kidman and David Wenham. Twenty years later the adult Dev Patel (with girlfriend Rooney Mara) reopens his own case .. felt the film rather lost focus in the second half, needed to have a word with itself... Writer Luke Davies won BAFTA! (as did Dev.) Good ad for Google... Suffers perhaps also from some uncomfortable framing:

Davis, formerly a commercials director, made episodes of Jane Campion's TV series Top of the Lake, Fraser shot Zero Dark Thirty and Foxcatcher, Alexandre de Franceschi is the editor (Campion's Bright Star, The Painted Veil).