, directed by Jon Amiel, on UK release from 25 September
THE pain Charles Darwin felt when his beloved 10-year-old daughter died is well known. Annie was his favourite, and her death stripped him of the last vestiges of his Christian belief. Watching this film about Darwin’s life, I felt his pain – increasingly so, as I sat through nearly 2 hours of dead Annie’s ghost repeatedly appearing before him and admonishing him. “Don’t you dare give up on your book, Daddy,” it says, wagging its finger when Darwin is agonising about the reception his work will get. I desperately…
