Hill review – compelling story of formula one star Damon Hill’s trials on and off the racetrack
Film imparts profound lessons on the meaning of victory as it depicts the psychological pressure cooker in which the driver competed Just as Damon Hill played second fiddle at Williams Racing to Ayrton Senna, this film follows in the wake of Asif Kapadia’s 2010 high-octane, high-tragedy single-name documentary Senna . Where that film was all raw, experiential cinematic chicanery, Alex Holmes’s film is more traditional, rooted in interviews with Hill and his wife Georgie. However it has quieter, but equally profound, lessons to impart in its emphasis on the driver’s need to live up to his roistering father Graham , and on the real meaning of victory in the most alpha of environments that is Formula One. “It’s almost like I was trying to get back to the start again – get back to the place where it all went off the rails.” That’s the quasi-mythological racing line taken here; Hill is referring to the premature death in 1975 of his championship-winning dad aged 46 in a plane crash, whic...
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