Jason Isaacs in front of an image from the movie The Salt Path
The Big Picture This year, there is a veritable lions' share of incredible films making their World and North American debuts at the Toronto International Film Festival, including one of the most heartwarming and heartbreaking films I have watched this year: The Salt Path. Based on Raynor Winn's memoir by the same name, The Salt Path is also the feature directorial debut of Tony Award-winning theater director Marianne Elliot.
In a blind panic and in shock, they were given a week to pack the house, so they couldn't really manage. They were hiding under the stairs when the bailiffs came to throw them out of the house. His wife — Moth and Ray, they're called — in a moment of sheer madness, because there was a book she was holding in her hand because they managed to gather a box of books — he was in love with books; he had thousands of books — it was a map and a guide to walking the south coast of Britain.
When you see the two of them together, they're so devoted to each other. They've been together since they were teenagers. The fact that they lost everything and partly blamed each other for it for a while, and were battling against the worst things that nature can throw at you, stripped them down to their bare core, who they were with everything lost. Who they were, were people who had love at their core.
ISAACS: Theatrical means visual. She was very collaborative. She gathered around a lot of talented women, and she delegated a lot because she knew she was new, and she didn't think in these pictures. So in many ways, the look of the film was Hélène , our director of photography. She's a very idiosyncratic French woman hunched over an invisible cigarette that she didn't smoke all the time — she was actually wearing a beret on many days.
I love that. I also loved how, in the film, there are so many people who think he's Simon Armitage who was doing this walk, as well. It sounds like it was kind of meta there. But it got me thinking, have you ever been mistaken for somebody else the way that Moth is continuously mistaken for Simon? It's Tim Bogart. He's just got balls the size of planets. I mean, to make an original musical based on the source material for Romeo and Juliet, which is a different story from Romeo and Juliet, and to tell it on this big, epic scale is just… To want to do that and then to find the money to do that and to make it… So many things we watch on screen are like the other things we've seen on screen and playing it safe, and he's playing it so unsafe.
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