This politely unassuming little film builds into a wrenching examination of grief, guilt and eventual closure. 4/5 Roadwork: A story about a man whose home is to be demolished to make way for an. You must keep a pace of at least 4 miles per hour. But as a blistered and weathered Harold limps into the film’s heart-sore third act, director Hettie Macdonald, whose TV work includes Normal People, shifts up an emotional gear or two. The Long Walk: A story about a competetion between 100 boys aged 18 and under who must walk until only one is left standing. Initially, this autumn-years road movie, which was adapted by Rachel Joyce from her own novel, chugs along amiably, a cosily familiar tale of British eccentricity. His wife, Maureen (Penelope Wilton), hurt and confused by her husband’s abandonment, vacuums despondently. It’s an act of faith: he believes that by plodding through the B-roads of rural Britain he can save her life.
Then a chance encounter in a petrol station gives Harold a new purpose: he decides to walk from Devon to Berwick-upon-Tweed, where Queenie is receiving palliative care in a hospice. It’s just a few stunted lines on headed notepaper, a reply to his old friend and former work colleague Queenie (Linda Bassett), who, he learned recently, has terminal cancer. But for some reason he can’t bring himself to post the letter. The Long Walk : Bachman, Richard: Amazon.
M ild-mannered pensioner Harold Fry (Jim Broadbent) takes a stroll to the postbox one bright Devon morning.
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