Set on the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, against a backdrop of civil war, Mr Watts is the only white man left on the island, who steps in to become the local schoolmaster, sharing the delights of Dickens with his young students.
Reading the trials and tribulations of Pip from Great Expectations, the story comes to mirror Dickens' epic, as one young girl, Matilda, survives the war to tell her own story.
'MR PIP' STORIES
Hugh Laurie is transcendent, and his onscreen partnership with newcomer Xzannjah Matsi is simply beautiful. Moments of this film are brutal and gut-wrenching, but well worth the emotional discomfort.