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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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

12 Oct 2017

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