FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL Special Screenings

Hoping to rekindle a once brilliant if troubled acting career, fading movie icon Gloria Grahame (Annette Bening) finds renewal and a sense of promise in the footlights of the British stage. But when a devastating illness returns, cutting short any hope of a return to stardom, Gloria seeks comfort in the only place she can truly be herself: the working-class family home of Peter Turner (Jamie Bell), a struggling young actor and Gloria’s former lover. From an impromptu mid-afternoon disco session in a Liverpool boardinghouse to a tense family dinner on a Los Angeles beach, Peter soon finds himself awash in a flood of memories — and the realization that his love for Gloria burns strongly — in this visually sumptuous, deeply compassionate romance. – Cedar Sherbert