Grief and the importance of chosen family
Dan Levy starred in, top, and directed Good Grief. ‘Schitt’s Creek’ creator Dan Levy plays a grieving husband in his directorial film debut, ‘Good Grief’ CHRIS AZZOPARDI | Q Syndicate The grief was very real for Dan Levy who lost his grandma and his rescue dog, Redmond, over the span of a couple of years during the pandemic.
And then he did something very Dan Levy with that grief — he opened a blank page and got to work on Good Grief, a Netflix film out now, that he wrote, directed and stars in.
The film is the Schitt’s Creek creator’s first major endeavor since his Emmy-winning show became a sleeper hit. In it, Levy plays Marc, an artist we meet at a Christmas party that ends tragically for his husband, Oliver (Luke Evans), who dies in a car accident right outside their home.
Marc is left trying to make sense of his sudden loss and what he didn’t know about Oliver’s life before it ended, which takes him to a secret flat Oliver had in Paris.
