55th BFI London Film Festival - Day 12 Video Highlights

The British Film Institute have just released their latest highlights video from the 55th BFI London Film Festival, covering all the big events from Day 12. Writer-director Madonna was in attendance for the U.K. premiere of her latest film, W.E., while Michael Winterbottom (Trishna) also gave the final Screen Talk, presented in partnership with American Express, and artistic director Sandra Hebron introduced her last 'Surprise Film' - the comedy Damsels in Distress (dir. Whit Stillman).

W.E. synopsis: "W.E. tells the story of two fragile but determined women - Wally Winthrop and Wallis Simpson - separated by more than six decades. In 1998, lonely New Yorker Wally Winthrop (Abbie Cornish) is obsessed with what she perceives as the ultimate love story: King Edward’s VIII’s abdication of the British throne for the woman he loved, American divorcée Wallis Simpson. But Wally’s research, including several visits to the Sotheby’s auction of the Windsor Estate, reveals that the couple’s life together was not as perfect as she thought. Weaving back and forth in time, W.E. intertwines Wally’s journey of discovery in New York with the story of Wallis (Andrea Riseborough) and Edward (James D’Arcy), from the glamorous early days of their romance to the slow unraveling of their lives in the decades that followed."


Check out our coverage of the 55th BFI London Film Festival here.