Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool
- 2017
- UK
- 1h 45min
- 15
- Directed by: Paul McGuigan
- Cast: Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Kenneth Cranham, Vanessa Redgrave, Frances Barber, Julie Walters
- UK release: 17 November 2017
London, 1978: young actor Peter Turner (Bell) meets and falls in love with 50s film star Gloria Grahame (Bening). Sensitively adapted from Turner’s own memoir, it features a luminous performance from Bening as the faded star and moves with wonderful fluidity from the present to flashbacks. A lovely celebration of a unique woman.
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Performance times
National Film & Television School, Beaconsfield (0.0 miles)
Fri 7 Sep
£3–£10
This adaptation of Peter Turner’s memoir depicts the surprising romance between Oscar winning movie star Gloria Grahame (Annette Bening), then in her mid-fifties and Turner (Jamie Bell), a young actor in his twenties. This real-life May to December relationship is recreated with warmth and tenderness and effortlessly brought to life by Bening and Bell.
Their relationship spans London, Los Angeles, New York and… Liverpool. With Vanessa Redgrave, Stephen Graham, Frances Barber, Kenneth Cranham and Julie Walters.Subtitled Screenings The screenings on Saturday 18th November at 8.45pm ">Subtitled Screenings Facebook Group.
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Jamie Bell's nervous sex scenes with Annette Bening
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Annette Bening felt safe working with Jamie Bell
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Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool
11 Oct 2017
LFF 2017: Annette Bening and Jamie Bell are outstanding in this captivating celebration of Gloria Grahame
Although she was an Oscar-winner (for Vincente Minnelli's 1952 scorcher The Bad and the Beautiful) and had made her mark from It's a Wonderful Life to Oklahoma! Gloria Grahame's star had well and truly waned by the early 1980s, with her final years…
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