There's a hint of comforting, chocolate-box, Sunday-night TV here, but it's delivered via such quietly powerful performances and with such hope that it's hard to resist.
Melodrama done properly, powered by a pair of outstanding performances.
Though the film conforms a little too neatly to the inspirational biopic movie tropes, Serkis contrives a few scenes of almost sci-fi like horror that occasionally break Cavendish’s story out of the film’s own stiff-upper-lipped conventions.
Breathe fills you with admiration for a triumph against adversity.
Andy Serkis’s directorial debut about the life of pioneering polio survivor Robin Cavendish is heartwarming and heartbreaking in equal measure.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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