*Wednesday 14th January, The Ballad of Wallace Island*
Greetings to all our film club supporters and thank you for another successful year. We had some great audiences and showed some superb films in 2025, including *Conclave*, *Holy Cow, The Penguin Lessons* and the haunting *All We Imagine is Light*. When we set up the club eleven(!) years ago, our intention was to give any profits to local charities and due to the healthy turnout in 2025 we will be making a £250 donation to the homeless charity Stonepillow in Chichester. Thank YOU.
We are back with a film we wanted to show last year, but couldn’t get the rights. However we have them now and are delighted to present *The Ballad of Wallis Island*, a gentle, funny yarn of a folk duo reunited by a rather odd superfan played by Tim Key, a millionaire recluse who lives on the remote Wallis Island off the coast of Wales. His dream is to reunite the folk duo, McGwyer Mortimer (played by Tom Baden and Carey Mulligan). Reading the review below, this is clearly THE film to show in January, ‘somehow finding reasons to be cheerful.’
‘It is, according to no less an authority than the rom-com king Richard Curtis, destined to be “one of the greatest British films of all time”. But don’t let that put you off. For *The Ballad of Wallis Island* … isn’t some floppy-haired Hugh Grant vehicle, but a reflection on our national character that is altogether more of its times … It’s a lovely, melancholic comedy about the acceptance of failure, loss and the slow understanding that what’s gone is not coming back: an ode to rain and cardigans, lousy plumbing and worse puns … as a film it’s both gloriously funny and oddly comforting, taking a world where everything seems to be slowly coming adrift and making that feel so much more bearable … tucked inside *The Ballad of Wallis Island* is the germ of a national story: struggling to tell other people how we really feel about them, in the rain, but still somehow finding reasons to be cheerful.’ *The Guardian*
Blwyddyn Newydd Dda! (that’s Happy New Year in Welsh)
Come and join your friends, neighbours and fellow film enthusiasts for one of the top-rated audience films of last year. Refreshment and chat beforehand – the bar opens at 7.30pm, film starts at 8pm.
*Emily, Jude, Julia, Steph and David*
*Compton and Up Marden School Hall, School Lane, Compton, PO18 9EZ There is plenty of parking in the school grounds, the hall and pay-bar open at 7.30pm and the film showing starts at 8pm. Tickets £6 (cash preferred)*
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