Judging by the packed-out pre-festival outdoor screening of Dinard’s 18th British Film Festival, this year’s show promised to be bursting at the seams, writes French News. Cinema-goers were well advised to come early.Some 20 out-of-competition films opened with Ken Loach’s latest offering ‘It’s a Free World’, starring Kierston Wareing and Juliet Ellis. Other must-sees are ‘This is England’ by Shane Meadows, ‘Ruby Blue’ by Jan Dunn starring Bob Hoskins and festival president Josiane Balasko and ‘I really hate my job’ by Oliver Parker with Neve Cambell (a welcome come-back of 'Party of Five' all-time favourite) and Shirley Henderson.
As promised, a James Bond theme is being played throughout this year’s festival. Guest speaker Nicolas Cebille gave a conference tracing the evolution of Her Majesty’s most famous spy on October 2 in the Stéphan Bouttet theatre after the projection of a 30-minute 007 documentary.
Another run-up event to the festival-proper was the presence of Mariano Otero, the world famous artist who designed this year’s absolutely delightful festival poster. Otero was on hand to sign copies of his posters on Wednesday October 3 at Dinard’s Palais des Arts -- la vache! where was I? This was followed by a screening of a 90-minute selection of the best British short films shown at the festival over the last two years.
There is also a host of admission free films this year, including the brilliant ‘Notes on a Scandal’ (Judi Dench surpasses herself in this film and Kate Blanchet is her usual wonderful self), ‘A Cock and Bull Story’, ‘History Boys’, ‘Shaun of the Dead’, ‘Twenty Four Seven’, ‘Very British Gangster’ and the 'hoping-to-be-shocking'‘Irina Palm’, starring Marianne Faithfull.
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