Monday 19 March 2018

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017 Paul McGuigan)

Based on Peter Turner's own book (he appears briefly in the film), adapted by Matt Greenhalgh, sensibly in a way that doesn't follow chronology (particularly in the key bust up scene, which is well done). Matt seems to specialise in Liverpool and true stories (The Look of Love, Nowhere Boy, Control).

Jamie Bell, Annette Bening, Julie Walters, Steven Graham and Kenneth Cranham - all good. But it's no My Week with Marilyn and it's surprising that it found funding, especially as I would have thought not many people would know who Gloria Grahame was, these days.



Interestingly, an EON production produced by Barbara Broccoli. Shot by Polish Urszula Pontikos.

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