Breathe (2017)
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- Andrew Garfield
- Claire Foy
- Ed Speleers
- Tom Hollander
- David Butler
- Ben Lloyd-Hughes
- Miranda Raison
- Camilla Rutherford
- Andre Jacobs
- Terry Norton
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Breathe is clearly aiming for the same heart-wrenching emotional heights as James Marsh’s Oscar-winning Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything. But this is very much a crude copy, its noble intentions hobbled by a trite script, flat characters and a relentlessly saccharine tone that eventually starts to grate.
It’s a gorgeous, romantic drama that earns its emotional resonance without venturing beyond the most familiar beats.
The lack of emotional distance between the filmmakers and the subject – producer Jonathan Cavendish is the son of Robin and Diana – might account for the bracingly celebratory approach. This is understandable, perhaps, but it results in a lack of dramatic light and shade, and an absence of texture in the characterisation.