Review of Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017) by David F — 22 Apr 2018

I wanted to love this film because it's full of amber-lit English drawing rooms and countrysides and country houses, has a cute kid playing the young inspiration for the Winnie the Pooh books, because it's about a book and an author, and because that book is one of the most famous books known around the world.

And while the story of how that book came to be was somewhat slowly unrolled the way that the book's reception affected the author's son, Christopher Robin Milne, and strained his relationship with his father was very emotionally affecting.

The young Milne's complicated feelings of exploitation and neglect provide a deep layer of angst beneath the anglophilic charms of this film.