British Film Festival 2014

British Film Festival 2014
Image: What We Did On Our Holiday

Among the 16 new films being showcased at this year’s British Film Festival are epics set during the war and a host of highly anticipated flicks featuring stars such as Benedict Cumberbatch, Kit Harrington and Pierce Brosnan.

Testament of Youth centres on a free-spirited woman who overcomes prejudice, wins an Oxford scholarship and pursues a literary career, but chaos ensues with WWI; Mr Turner deals with the artist who painted with light itself (which also won two awards at Cannes, including Best Actor for Timothy Spall); ’71 covers the ‘the troubles’ in Northern Ireland – Jack O’Connell (Skins) plays a young British soldier, separated from his unit, who must find his way through the mean and deadly streets; and moving film What We Did On Our Holiday (starring Billy Connolly) looks at the dynamics of a couple going through divorce who take their children on a holiday reunion to Scotland.

Six from the 60s has six standout classics from the influential era including Zulu (1964), Darling (1965), If (1968), Billy Liar (1963), The Italian Job (1969) and A Hard Day’s Night (1964). (MMu)

Nov 6-26, Palace Norton St, Leichhardt & Palace Verona, Paddington, $19.50-150 (10 film pass), britishfilmfestival.com.au

BY MICHAEL MUIR

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