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To Olivia review – a glib exploration of Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal’s grief – The Guardian
Keeley Hawkes and Hugh Bonneville are decent as the actor and children’s author whose daughter died aged seven, but there is no real howl of pain
The unbearable grief of losing a child is a difficult subject for any movie to encompass and it defeats this decently acted but syrupy, glib drama about the early married life of movie star Patricia Neal and childrens author Roald Dahl, whose seven-year-old daughter Olivia died in 1962 of encephalitis due to measles. Despite the best intentions, To Olivia winds up creating a carpet of eggshells for its audience to walk across.
The film suggests the family were brought closer together by this catastrophe,…
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