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Film: The Great Escaper
14 May | 2:00 pm
Tickets €3.50 (plus €1.50 booking fee per ticket) Includes tea/coffee after the movie)
Access cinema | Oliver Parker, UK, 2023, 96 mins, 12A
In the summer of 2014 – the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings – octogenarian Bernie Jordan made global headlines. He’d staged a “great escape” from his care home to join fellow war veterans on a beach in Normandy, commemorating their fallen comrades.
But of course, it wasn’t the whole story. The bitter-sweet script explores the reality with wit and a very big heart. Bernie’s adventure, spanning a mere 48 hours, also marked the culmination of his 60-year marriage to Rene – the story celebrates their love without sentimentality and with an eye to the lessons we can all learn from the greatest generation. Starring: Glenda Jackson, Michael Caine, John Standing.