#to olivia

[savycon63]

Still working my way through Keeley’s filmography and came across “To Olivia”. True story about American actress Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl’s marriage and the effect losing their 7 year old daughter had. Keeley was brilliant and I have to say the 60’s style really suits her.

[sapphicmontague]

I also watched To Olivia, and that was brutal but so, so amazing.

[jp-hunsecker]

To Olivia Movie Review

To Olivia reveals little or nothing about Roald Dahl’s creative process, his source of inspiration apparently being an imaginary child, who may or may not be an alcohol-induced hallucination. The movie, directed and co-written by John Hay, isn't very illuminating about Dahl (Hugh Bonneville) the person either; the film gives the impression that he was a deadbeat dad, a lousy husband, and an angry, schizophrenic alcoholic, but only the most naive of viewers would believe for even a second that any of this has the slightest connection to reality. Even the events portrayed in To Olivia that do correspond to the writer's real life receive a purely superficial treatment. For example, after the death of his daughter Olivia (Darcey Ewart), and following a meeting with a Church official, Dahl comes to view Christianity as a sham. However, Dahl did not come accross as having been a believer prior to this events, and at no point in the film does he appear to be particularly religious or irreligious. I guess this is what happens when someone makes a film about one person based on the biography of a different person. To Olivia was originally titled An Unquiet Life, and is based on Stephen Michael Shearer's biography of Patricia Neal (an American actress and Dahl's wife from 1953 to 1983, played here by Keeley Hawes) of the same name. And speaking of titles, Hay gets that wrong too. We see Dahl working, very briefly, on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (which spends more time being read than being written), and the implication is that that book is dedicated to Olivia's memory. However, it is James and the Giant Peach (1961) and The BFG (1982) that Dahl dedicated to his daughter. Here's a film that is presumably going to be of interest to Dahl's readers, but which patronizes the viewers by automatically assuming that they will only be familiar with the author's most popular novel. Who wants to see a movie whose director groundlessly underestimates his very target audience? It gets worse, though; specifically the intertitle that precedes the closing credits. 

Now, that’s the movie they should have made.

Humbert Roget

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LEGENDADO - To Olivia é um drama britânico de 2021 dirigido por John Hay e estrelado por Hugh Bonneville como Roald Dahl e Keeley Hawes como Patricia Neal. É baseado na biografia de Stephen Michael Shearer sobre Neal, intitulada An Unquiet Life. O filme apresenta Geoffrey Palmer em sua última aparição. Conta com uma pequena participação de Sam Heughan interpretando o astro Paul Newman. SINOPSE: É 1962 e Roald Dahl (Hugh Bonneville), um excêntrico autor infantil e sua esposa, Patricia Neal (Keeley Hawes), uma glamourosa estrela do cinema de Hollywood, se retiraram para o interior da Inglaterra para criar sua jovem família em expansão. Tragicamente, suas vidas foram viradas de cabeça para baixo com a morte devastadora de sua filha Olivia e enquanto o casal lutava por uma perda inimaginável, sua dor compartilhada se torna uma fonte de redenção e força que muda suas vidas para sempre. PARA ASSISTIR: clica na Fonte.