The Salt Path
Directed by Marianne Elliott
The profound story of husband and wife Raynor and Moth Winn, who embark on a 630-mile trek after being forcibly removed from their home. Hoping that in nature they will find solace and a sense of acceptance, they walk through the beautiful but rugged coastlines of South West England - a journey that is exhilarating, challenging, and liberating in equal measure. THE SALT PATH is a powerful portrayal of home, and how… From TMDB
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On Rotten Tomatoes, The Salt Path has a rating of 77% based on reviews from 43 critics, with an average rating of 6.4/10. The website's consensus reads: "Beautifully acted and infused with breathtaking landscapes, The Salt Path unfolds as a modest but moving portrait of loss and renewal." On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 49 based on reviews from four critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. Clarisse Loughrey, in The Independent, writes that The Salt Path offers an "emotionally tidy" presentation of the chaos that major life shocks can bring. In her view, the "shame and exhaustion" of Ray, a woman whose lifelong security has been torn from her, is "etched on…
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60 of 202 · most liked firstThe genius move for the Salt Path movie would be for Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs to also star in a dramatisation of the *real* Salt Path story. Proper Hearts of Darkness / Apocalypse Now stuff.
neutral · AI labelView post →They’ve got to make a true-crime style film about the Salt Path scam, but also starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs.
neutral · AI labelView post →New Projector Review! Until recently, The Salt Path was a massive hit book and film, with Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs, when an investigative article cast serious doubt on this supposedly true story. Having seen it before the news broke, I reassess the film in light of it. youtu.be/aXeVLWUW8GI
neutral · AI labelView post →I've not read the book, but I thought The Salt Path was a good film, mostly because of the excellent leads. BUT, in one scene, the couple see a host of remarkably tame rabbits - of the wrong variety to be wild in the UK. Surely they could have devised a way to show the correct rabbits? Like these:
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched the The Salt Path at a local cinema last night. A heartfelt, pure & beautiful film, just like the book by Raynor Winn. It made me want to grab my walking boots immediately! Here are some of my paintings from along the Coastal Path. Selworthy, Somerset. Cornwall & Beer Head, Devon. #saltpath
positive · AI labelView post →Agree. Fascinating backstory to the book and the film. The Salt Path becomes the Porkie [Pies] Path!
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ve had so many conversations about The Salt Path book and film of late, living in Devon as I do. I’ve steadfastly refused to read/see it - mostly on the basis of the name Moth. But also because something felt off about the whole thing. This is fascinating.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm sorry but The Salt Path sounds made up. It never existed. They've invented a fake best seller with fake film adaptation to try and trick me into reading a newspaper article
neutral · AI labelView post →Gillian Anderson at the 42nd Munich Film Festival promoting The Salt Path 🚨NEW🚨
neutral · AI labelView post →Reckon The Salt Path film could be salvaged with the addition of Anderson and Isaacs winking at each other and doing a chinny reckon every few scenes.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just seen The Salt Path film! What a great story … someone should write a book about it!!
positive · AI labelView post →Reading about the film version of Raynor Winn's phenomenal The Salt Path. Back in the day my book Outskirts was on the same Wainwright shortlist. At the last second it was revealed Michael Gove was giving out the prize. You've never seen six authors more desperate to lose.
neutral · AI labelView post →I didn't think I was going to do a video on The Salt Path, but now with all the stuff about it, I think it is worth discussing the film - and by extension, the book - because it's worth talking about and re-examining. So that's what I've been writing currently.
neutral · AI labelView post →I saw The Salt Path film and thought it quite sweet, even if they do start in Minehead, reach Ilfracombe, bounce back to the Valley of Rocks in Lynton, fast forward to Clovelly, then back to Lynton again. Turns out the inventive geography was the least of its issues. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
neutral · AI labelView post →Following the US Premiere of THE SALT PATH, the iconic Gillian Anderson will be accepting the Maverick Spirit Award for her powerhouse roles in TV & Film + her impact offscreen. Don't miss this amazing CINEQUEST event Saturday, March 22nd. shorturl.at/8GU1S
neutral · AI labelView post →I keep comparing this with The Salt Path story all coming apart. That was last summer. They had their film coming out, he had his book coming out. There must have been a lot of clicks.
neutral · AI labelView post →The film adaptation of “The Salt Path” starring Gillian Anderson & Jason Issacs recently premiered in the UK and will likely hit the U.S. at some point. Curious if it will be marketed as “based on a true story” since this reporting argues it erases some ugly & inconvenient truths about the story IRL
neutral · AI labelView post →The Observer has an extraordinary takedown of the two-million-selling memoir and movie The Salt Path - alleging “Raynor Winn” is a fake name, she is a fraudster who disappeared after stealing thousands from friends, and her husband’s degenerative illness may be fake observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh wow I really loved The Salt Path film! Definitely got me emotional. A beautiful story about how healing nature can be. I now both want to read the book, and go hiking in England! Absolutely stunning scenery. I’m ready to move to the forest 🌳
positive · AI labelView post →Evening movie: The Salt Path. It’s fine, but you’d be better off spending your two hours on an actual walk boxd.it/9SWC87
neutral · AI labelView post →I was not previously aware of The Salt Path but sounds like there could be quite a good dark film in the actuality! observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
neutral · AI labelView post →Leaving aside the small matter that “The Salt Path” turned out to be a massive fraud by the central characters, it’s also a fucking terrible film too. 10/10 for everybody involved for churning out such a steaming pile of shit. 💩
negative · AI labelView post →If you were going to see The Salt Path film and now feel at a loss, then go and see The Ballad of Wallis Island instead.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Salt Path scandal makes watching the film adaptation an impossible task, but it's only through that lens that its odd plot holes and narrative issues make sense. I wrote about it for @avclub.com. www.avclub.com/the-salt-pat...
neutral · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself with: One book 📚 - The Salt Path, Raynor Winn One movie 🎥 - The Prestige One Album 💿 - Mezzanine, Massive Attack One TV Show 📺- Severance
neutral · AI labelView post →Filmed a video on The Salt Path, reassessing the film in light of current circumstances. I won't lie, this video makes me anxious a bit, it's a little different to my usual.
neutral · AI labelView post →I keep being advertised the Salt Path film and I am considering watching it, just to see if it gets a sequel about, you know, the real story. Same cast.
neutral · AI labelView post →We now actually need a film dramatising the Salt Path scam and how the publishing industry did no due diligence
neutral · AI labelView post →Fantastic investigative journalism from Chloe Hadjimatheou on the scammers/grifters behind the Salt Path book and film: observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
neutral · AI labelView post →Glamorous night out at Edinburgh’s classiest picture house with this wondrous young lass. The book of The Salt Path, like my date, is exquisite. The film… a bit less so. Lovely evening all the same.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m sure someone else has thought of this but … when they do make a film about the Salt Path scam they should still cast Isaacs and Anderson right?
neutral · AI labelView post →The ominous bit for Raynor and Moth is in the final sentence - the BBC part financed the Salt Path film. And if there is one thing the BBC likes to investigate above all else it is stuff about the BBC.
neutral · AI labelView post →Haven't read The Salt Path, nor seen the film. But I'd watch a film about how The Salt Path sold a crock.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Salt Path one has got the lot, though - gullibility, posh people, a bullshit book, a bullshit film, a fake illness, fraud.
neutral · AI labelView post →I have to admit though that as a former bookseller, keen reader and film fan I am a little confused, even slightly embarrassed that the Salt Path completely passed me by. I keep reading “Publishing phenomenon” and shrugging.
neutral · AI labelView post →Gillian Anderson & Jason Isaacs discussing their roles in THE SALT PATH film, based on the bestselling book by @raynorwinn.bsky.social. In cinemas 30th May. www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
neutral · AI labelView post →#AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilm The Salt Path (2024) (The start of the path and Porlock Weir which appears around five times in random places in the film)
neutral · AI labelView post →Over on Patreon, I discuss The Salt Path film in light of the scandal surrounding the book in the last few weeks. www.patreon.com/c/FilmBrain
neutral · AI labelView post →Idea: watch The Salt Path movie at x4 speed, interspersed with b/w footage of the Keystone Cops in hot pursuit.
negative · AI labelView post →Just been to see ‘The salt path’, lovely film. The book is better but the film is still worth a watch. A timely reminder homelessness could happen to anyone #TheSaltPath #homelessness
positive · AI labelView post →In today’s @theipaper.com I’ve reviewed The Salt Path Scandal which aired on Sky/NOW last night. An extraordinary story still with so many unanswered questions.
neutral · AI labelView post →Michael Warburton will soon be grifting off the back of The Salt Path film, which in itself is hilariously ironic.
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie poster for "The Salt Path" looking so good
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching the Salt Path documentary. Quite apart from the faux hippy compulsive lying and egoism, it really does make that film look appalling.
negative · AI labelView post →As someone whose family has been affected by a psychopathic liar falsely claiming serious illness, I hope the Salt Path people get what's coming to them. Happy to report I didn't read the book. Or watch the film.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched this absolute gem of a film. Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs as Raynor and Moth Winn in The Salt Path are both fantastic and absolutely stunning shots of the landscape 💙
positive · AI labelView post →Don't care about the controversy, the movie of The Salt Path looks worth a watch.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Salt Path PR folk (both book and film) will be hoping it all blows over in a couple of days, that it doesn’t “cut through” beyond social media and Observer readers (nothing on BBC website, for example). They may still get away with it.
neutral · AI labelView post →My mother’s review of The Salt Path movie feels like a neat summation of the whole debacle: “Beautiful scenery but mainly it’s just a lot of them huffing and puffing.”
neutral · AI labelView post →This is the article breaking the literary internet today, an extraordinary investigation by Observer journalists into THE SALT PATH book and film. I went to a launch event for the book and was moved by the couple's story. My husband was always sceptical... observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
neutral · AI labelView post →New "The Salt Path" trailer on Gillian's insta. Unfortunately too long to share here. I can't possibly begin to tell you how much I'm looking forward to this movie.🤩
positive · AI labelView post →Am I the only one who has neither read the book, seen the film, or gives a monkey about the Salt Path thing?
neutral · AI labelView post →I went to see The Salt Path because a friend wants to. Not my kind of film. I assumed the detail of how they lost the house was left out because the how didn't really matter but I very much got the feeling there was something we weren't being told. And here we go: observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
negative · AI labelView post →Just finished The Salt Path by Raynor Winn - just lovely. The movie trailer looked so good that I wanted to read it before I watched the movie.
positive · AI labelView post →They could make a film about the shocking Salt Path revelations and show it as a double bill with The Salt Path.
neutral · AI labelView post →can anyone weigh in on the kind of rabbits they had in the Salt Path film. I have not seen the Salt Path film
neutral · AI labelView post →The Salt Path 🎥 The newly released trailer has us buzzing with excitement and anticipation, capturing the essence of Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir in the most moving way. We can’t wait to see this extraordinary journey unfold on film! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ7R...
neutral · AI labelView post →I think the trouble with books on that front - and this may piss people off - is that they aren’t big enough business for the press to care enough. I don’t think it’s coincidental that the stuff about the Salt Path kicked off when it was made into a film.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Salt Path woman has yet another book coming out and they made a film of the first one despite it being demonstrably chock full of lies
neutral · AI labelView post →Just started The Salt Path movie: I might be swearing soon
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