My Review-
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2023) My Rating 6/10
Based on on the 2012 novel of the same name by Rachel Joyce is a British film directed by Hettie Macdonald with a screen by Rachel Joyce.
The film stars Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton cast as husband and wife Harold and Maureen Fry . These 2 veteran performers who play a couple whose marriage effectively disintegrated with their son David's suicide about 20 years previously give superb performances in what I call a very average movie.
I couldn't help comparing The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry to the 2021 movie that starred Timothy Spall titled The Last Bus . I scored that movie an 8/10 both movies are about pilgrimages The Last Bus in my view is a far superior movie based on a true story about an aging man who travels across the UK by bus to fulfill his pledge to spread his late wife's ashes near their first home at Land's End.
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is not a true story also about a elderly man who receives a letter from an old friend Queenie who played an important role in his life to say she is dying in a hospice in Berwick-upon-Tweed.
Harold is inspired to walk the length of England despite his wife's anxiety hoping to keep Queenie alive till he arrives to say goodbye.
I thought the movie became over sentimental and frankly a bit silly when Harold becomes an unwilling media celebrity and begins to attract groupies to join him including a very troubled young man and a little dog that looks as old as Harold. People in the different villages recognise Harold and he almost becomes a pop star icon until he realises he needs to compete his pilgrimage alone.
I think surely the novel by Rachel Joyce is better than her screenplay ?
Her first novel was a long-list finalist for the 2012 Man Booker Prize winning the UK National Book Award for New Writer of the Year Hettie Macdonald is a fine Director of such great series as Howard's End , Normal People , The Tunnel and A Beautiful Thing plus Doctor Who but this latest movie in my opinion is not her finest moment.
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2023) My Rating 6/10
Based on on the 2012 novel of the same name by Rachel Joyce is a British film directed by Hettie Macdonald with a screen by Rachel Joyce.
The film stars Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton cast as husband and wife Harold and Maureen Fry . These 2 veteran performers who play a couple whose marriage effectively disintegrated with their son David's suicide about 20 years previously give superb performances in what I call a very average movie.
I couldn't help comparing The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry to the 2021 movie that starred Timothy Spall titled The Last Bus . I scored that movie an 8/10 both movies are about pilgrimages The Last Bus in my view is a far superior movie based on a true story about an aging man who travels across the UK by bus to fulfill his pledge to spread his late wife's ashes near their first home at Land's End.
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is not a true story also about a elderly man who receives a letter from an old friend Queenie who played an important role in his life to say she is dying in a hospice in Berwick-upon-Tweed.
Harold is inspired to walk the length of England despite his wife's anxiety hoping to keep Queenie alive till he arrives to say goodbye.
I thought the movie became over sentimental and frankly a bit silly when Harold becomes an unwilling media celebrity and begins to attract groupies to join him including a very troubled young man and a little dog that looks as old as Harold. People in the different villages recognise Harold and he almost becomes a pop star icon until he realises he needs to compete his pilgrimage alone.
I think surely the novel by Rachel Joyce is better than her screenplay ?
Her first novel was a long-list finalist for the 2012 Man Booker Prize winning the UK National Book Award for New Writer of the Year Hettie Macdonald is a fine Director of such great series as Howard's End , Normal People , The Tunnel and A Beautiful Thing plus Doctor Who but this latest movie in my opinion is not her finest moment.