Film
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- Director
- Mike Newell
- Certificate
- 12A
- Running Time
- 124 mins
Mike Newell‘s first feature since his 2012 bash at Great Expectations is a long-gestating, handsomely staged prestige Britflick adapted from the 2008 bestseller by Mary Anne Shaffer and Annie Barrows.
Downton‘s Lily James is back in period garb as free-spirited hackette Juliet Ashton, who forms a life-changing bond with the eccentrics of the eponymous Nazi-resisting book club while researching their experiences in occupied Guernsey during WWII. Michiel Huisman (Daario Naharis from Game of Thrones) plays a pig farmer and the supporting cast includes Jessica Brown Findlay, Matthew Goode, Tom Courtenay and Penelope Wilton. You may wish to note that the steamer in the background in the trailer above is the Balmoral, as Princes Wharf was once again pressed into service to stand in for a 1940s dockside – in this case the Weymouth docks of 1946 – when several scenes were shot here last April.
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