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Noble (15)
Directed by Stephen Bradley
4/5
THE remarkable story of humanitarian Christina Noble, who overcame personal adversity to go on to help hundreds of thousands of impoverished children in Vietnam, is the focus of this powerful and impassioned drama.
Awe-inspiring and inspirational don’t seem adequate adjectives to describe this extraordinary Irish woman, whose early life reads like a Dickensian horror story and who has worked relentlessly for children’s rights and care.
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