BY a remarkable coincidence, two ‘grief movies’ have been released in British cinemas in the same month - and both feature a captive bird of prey.
In the first film, Hamnet - which has already won awards - a Harris Hawk was used.
In the second, H Is for Hawk, the raptor is a Goshawk - appropriate given that the action is based on Helen Macdonald's award-winning novel of the same name where it is a Goshawk which is the main focus of the narrative.
In both films, the birds are imbued with a kind of spirituality linking our mortal existence to a life beyond.
H Is for Hawk is released on Friday January 23.
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