THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND – Saturday 15th November 2025 at 7.30pm
“He’s getting the band back together“
Fresh Big Hearted Comedy
Cert: 12
UK 2025 99 mins (plus an intermission of 15 mins)
Director: James Griffiths
Starring: Tim Key, Tom Basden & Carey Mulligan
The Ballad of Wallis Island follows Charles (Tim Key), an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favourite musicians, Mortimer-McGwyer (Carey Mulligan and Tom Basden) back together. His fantasy quickly turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home on Wallis Island. Old tensions resurface as Charles tries desperately to salvage his dream gig.
Ballad of Wallis Island has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 96%.
The film will be shown with an intermission with the bar and ice creams available.
“A bittersweet, cardigan-clad small treasure of a film and a baum for battered souls. If there’s any justice in the world it should be the breakout hit of the summer.”
Wendy Ide, Top Critic, Observer
“A deft and funny character comedy – The Ballad of Wallis Island cheerfully encourages us to shrug off the past and move forwards; it’s a delightful, entertaining British movie that fully deserves its growing success with audiences at home and abroad.”
Eddie Harrison film-authority.com