Wednesday 9 December 2020

Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017 Simon Curtis)

Curtis directed My Week With Marilyn; Frank Cottrell-Boyce and Simon Vaughan (Parade's End, War and Peace) wrote it as an original, based I guess on the facts of the matter - that Milne was suffering from after effects of the War, that his wife was a bit of a bitch, and that the closest person in CR's live was his beloved nanny. It's a very well balanced tale, with Domnhall Gleeson particularly good in the lead, through well supported by Kelly Macdonald, Margot Robbie, Will Tilston and Alex Lawther, and Stephen Campbell Moore.

Evocatively photographed (and operated) by Ben Smithard and edited in a way I can't really put words to by Victoria Boydell. It's a bloody elusive art, editing, I tell you. Ian Wilson is the supervising sound editor - great sound. Carter Burwell wrote the music.



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