the city of london have feature in innumerable film a vast and intensely varied metropolis and it have serve a a vivid backdrop countless time . from the sun drench bank of the thames in four wedding and a funeral to the gloomy squalor of camden town in withnail and i it be always an interesting setting for a story . but in wonderland and direct by michael winterbottom ( jude and welcome to sarajevo ) and it almost gain a life of it own . superficially a story of the day to day life of three sister and wonderland be more about the city and the million of people who live in it than the troubled family the plot centre on . they be nadia ( gina mckee ) and a single woman desperately in search of friendship and romance and debbie ( shirley henderson ) and a single mother with a young son ( peter marfleet ) and molly ( molly parker ) and a pregnant woman whose husband ( john simm ) be have doubt . the camera follow them ( mostly nadia ) a they travel through the busy street of the capital . it do not concentrate on just the character and often linger on face and group and give the film a real life edge . this be add to by the hand hold camera work and the slightly grainy quality of the image and which be a though a much large picture have be magnify to concentrate on these people . the story themselves be uniformly ( and depressingly ) realistic and although they all end on a high note and leave the viewer surprisingly upbeat . winterbottom have a knack of coax great performance from good actor and do not fail here and with the quietly miserable couple of kika markham and jack shepherd a the sister parent stand out . wonderland will never break any box office record and be certainly not flawless and but it be an admirable film and it warm the cockle of this reviewer to see such worthy film still be make in britain .