H is for Hawk: Claire Foy is ‘terrific’ in tender grief drama

H is for Hawk: Claire Foy is ‘terrific’ in tender grief drama

When any “beloved work of literature” is made into a film, there’s always a “niggling worry” that the book will not be “fully realised” on screen, said Wendy Ide in The Observer. But happily, this adaptation of Helen Macdonald’s bestselling 2014 memoir does ample justice to its source material.The film stars Claire Foy as Helen, an academic whose life falls apart when her photographer father (Brendan Gleeson) dies.With her career derailing, she …

‘H Is for Hawk’ director: ‘We all had a little cry at one point or another’

Philippa Lowthorpe on how she tackled the most challenging film of her career and earned a BAFTA nomination in the process.