![]() ![]() ![]() The characters he encounters on his journey are intended to be a major facet of his tale, but they feel less genuine – not even cinematically exaggerated, just unreal. ![]() It is wonderfully shot, under the direction of Hettie Macdonald, encapsulating an overtly charming but not altogether false Britain as Fry passes through. The flashbacks, brief and eerie, yet full of unfurling revelation, are extremely effective. Fry’s decision initially appears selfish and nonsensical but, as more comes to light of his, Maureen’s and Queenie’s past, a sympathetic shift starts to occur. A feel-good premise for what appears on the surface to be one of those delightful, British, countryside-in-the-sun affairs: but there is darkness lurking within. Through eked-out backstory revelation, it is half achieved, but there remains a trace of sour aftertaste after two hours in the company of Jim Broadbent’s character.įry, a quiet pensioner residing with his wife, Maureen (Penelope Wilton), upon hearing that his friend, Queenie, is dying in a hospice some 500 miles away, pledges to walk to her in the hope that, in the process of waiting for weeks for him to arrive, she will go on living. ![]() The great quest in The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is, rather than Fry’s pilgrimage itself, the attempt to recapture audience sympathy for him after erring himself into such a deep hole in the film’s initial sequences. ![]()
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