By FilmInk Staff
Take flight with H Is For Hawk…
“Many of our audience will never have encountered a goshawk before, but we hope they will identify with Helen’s journey of love and loss, recovery and hope, and be inspired to take a walk in a forest and connect with nature in their own way.” Director Philippa Lowthorpe
When Helen’s beloved father passes away, she is overtaken by grief and loses herself in memories of their time birding and exploring the natural world together. She becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk, and so she brings the fearsome bird Mabel home to Cambridge with her. Ready to embark on the arduous process of trying to train the wildest of animals, Helen fills the freezer with hawk food and turns off her phone. But as she labours to teach Mabel how to hunt and fly free on her own, Helen uncovers how neglected her own emotions and life have become.
Based on a true story and the much-loved memoir of the same name by Helen MacDonald, H Is For Hawk is a soaring journey of the connection between people and nature, and how it might be possible to reconcile loss through love. Boasting a stunning, deeply affecting lead performance from Claire Foy (The Crown, The Magic Faraway Tree), and powerful support from the mighty Brendan Gleeson, H Is For Hawk is cinema at its best.
H Is For Hawk is released in cinemas on May 28.
In May, every member of ClubInk (our own movie club, details here) receives an in-season double pass to H Is For Hawk.
