These Dahls in despair are too darned wholesome: BRIAN VINER reviews To Olivia dailymail.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailymail.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A report that Jana Hecker, global head of equity syndicate and equity capital markets at UniCredit, had worked privately for Markus Braun, the imprisoned former CEO of Wirecard, stunned UniCredit employees on Friday afternoon when it appeared in the Financial Times.
Hugh Bonneville plays the irascible children s author
Credit: Thing One Limited
Dir: John Hay. Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Keeley Hawes, Geoffrey Palmer, Conleth Hill, Sam Heughan. PG cert, 99 mins
There are many stories that might be told about the legendarily tempestuous 30-year marriage of Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal. So it’s a pity that the British biopic To Olivia chose to relate one that didn’t actually happen.
This film, a Sky Cinema Originals production, has certainly not been shameless enough to fabricate the death of the Dahls’ eldest daughter, Olivia, from post-measles encephalitis in 1962. That much was real. But everything that happens afterwards has been, let’s say, creatively reshuffled. The film invents an entire timeline that isn’t true, to jerry-rig for itself a neat recovery arc about the healing power of creativity.
To Olivia Review | Movie empireonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from empireonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.