FILM
THE SALT PATH
The pasty-and-cream-tea brigade had arrived.
GILLIAN ANDERSON AND JASON ISAACS WALK HARD
★★
OUT 30 MAY / CERT 12A / 115 MINS
DIRECTOR Marianne Elliott
CAST Gillian Anderson, Jason Isaacs, James Lance
PLOT Recently made homeless, Ray (Anderson) and Moth (Isaacs) embark on a 600-mile walk around the Cornish coastline.
HOT ON THE heels of last year’s The Outrun (or, rather, trudging along behind it with blistered feet) comes The Salt Path, another adaptation of a memoir (by Raynor Winn, published in 2018) about the healing power of nature, featuring craggy coastlines and encounters with seals. Two examples don’t make a trend, but could it be that studios have identified ‘bestselling nature-writing-slashmemoir’ as a new kind of exportable British intellectual property? While on paper this true story of a middle-aged couple facing homelessness and a debilitating disease embarking on a trek along the southwest coast of England should be compelling, in actuality the road is a bit tough going.