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H is for Hawk (2025) is a biographical drama film adapted by director Philippa Lowthorpe from the best-selling autobiography by the same name, published in 2014. The film follows Helen Macdonald, played by Claire Foy of The Crown fame, as she tends to a goshawk in the aftermath of her father’s death.

I would like you to imagine that you are a middle-aged man with two young boys who has just lost his wife and the mother of his children. Now sprinkle in your inability to parent and grieve synonymously, what would that produce?

Grief plagues everyone differently; the forlorn objects left behind are both a comfort and a cruel reminder of a marked absence.