Dec 13th    

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool** (15)       
(HMV Curzon Wimbledon)

(GB 2017)             

The true story of Gloria Grahame's affair towards the end of her life with English actor Peter Turner, a slightly rosy-tinted portrait of the late 1970s, playing out as a real-life Sunset Boulevard scenario with stock footage of the real Ms. Grahame that threatens to upstage the central performance, but Bening's sensitive rendering of the character (particularly in the down-to-earth Liverpool setting) still engages and compels.

p: Barbara Broccoli, Colin Vaines

d: Paul McGuigan

s: Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Kenneth Cranham, Vanessa Redgrave, Frances Barber