Gillian Anderson, Jason Isaacs and some bunting star in The Salt Path, a new film based on a true story. Here’s the trailer.
From Reese Witherspoon in Wild to Robert Redford as Bill Bryson in A Walk In The Woods, the juxtaposition between intimate, human conflict and the vast landscape of the natural world has provided the backdrop for some terrific films.
The latest is The Salt Path, which is based on a true story.
The synopsis reads as follows:
A married couple (Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs) receive a bad health diagnosis and are left homeless after legal trouble, so they embark upon the 630-mile (1010 km) South West Coast Path – the longest uninterrupted path in England, from Minehead to Poole around the coast of Devon, Cornwall, and Dorset.
The cast also includes James Lance and Hermione Norris.
Theatre director Marianne Elliott, who previously directed the National Theatre Live productions of War Horse and Angels in America , as well as the recent television series of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads, makes her feature directorial debut, from a script by Rebecca Lenkiewicz. The film is adapted from the bestselling memoir of the same name by Raynor Winn.
In an interview with Deadline, Elliott said she was drawn to the story because “this was a woman who was really in dire straits. She was in her 50s, and she lost everything, including her looks. The love of her life was going to die. Everything that she knew of herself as a woman had gone, but she does something really amazing. So I think it was that. And I think also I wanted to do a film which was nothing like theatre … I’ve seen so many theatre directors transfer into film, and I can see that that is a tricky bridge to cross. And I thought, ‘I want to do something that’s really visual with not many words”.
The Salt Path will be released in UK cinemas on the 25th April 2025.
Watch the trailer below:
