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By this question of the year, the Atlantic Coasts of Cornwall and Devon Will Be Folding with Tourists. It make good time The Salt PathThe film is bled on the hit memo of Raynor Winn, Who in 2013 Tumbled Thrug The Cracks of Society Alongside HusBand Moth. She was 50 and he was 53 when a back investment saw their somresset Farmhouse Lost to A COURT Order.
Left Homeless, The Two Made A Remarkable Choice: to Spend the Foreseable Future Walking the 630-Mile South West Coast Path, While Ering Out £ 48 A Week in Tax Credits.
The Winns Are Played here by Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs. Early on, that can Feel Jaring, Two Verry Familiar Acts Playing An Ordinary Couple Made Destitue (and Each with a Midlands Accent). ISAACS HAS Physical HardShips to Convey Too. The day after The tone is set to heartwarming but
Winn’s BestSeller Will Guarantee The Film A Crowd. Still, Shapeing Scriptwriter Rebecca Linkificz Has to Make some Unsentimental Calls to Ensure the Feelgood Lands Cleanly. Detail as to How The Winns Lost their Home Is Sparse. Their University-Age Kids are Footnotes. The Focus Is Kept Tight on Raynor and Mother (Anderson and ISAACS). The Camera Always Returns to the Couple to make up, Stubornly in Love, a two-Person Fortress.
But if the casting asks for inspiration of dispyf, The Performances Are Excel Given The Inimitable Weirdness of Life, The Winns Make their Odyssey at the Same Time As Beloved Poet Simon Armitage Walks The Route for A Heavily Publicsed Book Project. Among Strangers, Kindness Is Evident. So Too Awkward Embarrasment. Cream Teas and Londoners with Second Homes Abound, Until the Weather Turns Grim.
That Much Hints at a Tension in the Film AS Well: A Tale of Desperate Penury that Offers Famous Faces, Gorgeous Scenery and Artful Uplift, Made to Be Seen in A Boutique Cineema. But Maybe that is just me being a Buzzkill. The Movie does what it does with APLIB.
★★★ ☆☆
In uk cinemas from May 30
