I managed to go along to a preview of this movie, in Exeter and with it, a talk by Raynor Winn, who wrote the original book, based upon travelling the perimeter of the south west coastal footpath.
I'd met Raynor Winn briefly once before at the Budleigh Salterton Book Festival, several years ago, when she presented the then new book and told some of its tales.
The movie has adapted the story with Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs plaing the two main characters, husband and wife, Raynor and 'Moth'.
It's essence is as a road trip, against the backdrop of their eviction from a securitised farm and extremely limited social care from the UK bureacracy. Moth had what was deemed a terminal illness, but was told they would need to wait around two years to get accommodation.
So, homeless and without pennies to rub together, they set out on the coastline footpath, which later became a memoir (re-booted to number two in the charts now the movie is out).
I enjoyed the book and the many scenes portrayed and I wondered how they would render on the screen. It works, if one accepts the pacing which slows down to provide 'nowness' and positive experiences which weave through this story of enduring hardship with matter-of-fact determination.
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