The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2023)

Jim Broadbent's retired Harold leaves his south Devon home to post a letter to a dying old colleague and simply keeps walking toward her hospice in Berwick-upon-Tweed, with no proper clothing and not even a cell phone. Rachel Joyce adapted her own novel, and Penelope Wilton gives the wife left behind as much weight as the walker. This is the gentlest grief film here and the clearest picture of a pilgrimage without a church: a promise, a direction and the strangers who join in. Some of the roadside encounters are sentimental, but Broadbent keeps the sorrow underneath them honest.