SummaryIn 1962, Roald Dahl (Hugh Bonneville) was an upcoming children's author, his wife, Patricia Neal (Keeley Hawes), was a Hollywood movie star. This unlikely pairing retreated to the English countryside to bring up their expanding young family, only for their lives to be turned upside down when their daughter Olivia contracted the measles virus and ... Read More
Directed By:John Hay
Written By:John Hay, David Logan, Stephen Michael Shearer
To Olivia
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Apr 14, 2022
60
A well-intentioned biopic about a little-discussed but pivotal moment for both artists. If it’s never transcendent, it at least offers charming child performances, and Hawes is a particularly good fit as Neal.
Apr 14, 2022
60
True, grief is universal – but To Olivia never embraces the fact that stories draw their power from specificity. It’s what makes them feel real.
Apr 14, 2022
60
The film does a good job of dragging us from the darkest valleys of tragedy towards the gently sunlit uplands.
Apr 14, 2022
50
How parents mourn a child’s death together — or apart — is among life’s aching mysteries. The director John Hay plumbs the poignancy well but avoids any tussling with Dahl’s legacy, tarnished by antisemitic statements.
Apr 14, 2022
40
This film comes to life in the two scenes when its hushed note of kindly reverence is broken.
Mar 1, 2021
40
As a straight-up redemptive sob story with no other purpose, it cooks the books.
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