BBC Films continues its 25th year celebrations with screenings at the BFI London Film Festival including two headline galas for the films Brooklyn and The Lady in the Van. The film festival opened on Wednesday 7 October. Here’s a quick run-down.
Brooklyn
Set in the early 1950s, between small town Ireland and New York, Brooklyn is the story of a young woman’s choice between two countries and two men. Desperately homesick at first, Eilis soon finds romance in Brooklyn but, when a family emergency forces her back to Ireland, she is torn between her personal freedom and her family responsibilities. The film stars Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters, Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson and Emory Cohen.
The Lady in the Van
A big-screen adaptation of writer Alan Bennett’s iconic and celebrated memoir, directed by long-standing Bennett collaborator Nicholas Hytner. The film tells the true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway before living there for 15 years.
The Ones Below
Two couples meet and their lives become fatally interlinked in this thriller starring Clémence Poésy, Stephen Campbell Moore, David Morrissey and Laura Birn. After one night a joint dinner begins to reveal all is not as it seems and a single tragic accident throws the couples into a nightmare of psychological terror.
My Scientology Movie
'I find that the most inexplicable behavior is motivated by very relatable human impulses,’ comments Louis Theroux as he heads to Los Angeles for this feature documentary about the Church of Scientology.
- Book tickets for screenings on the BFI London Film Festival website.
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- Read more blogs about BBC Films including Joe Oppenheimer's post about BBC Films at 25.
