Friday 7th November 7pm Tickets £5 Adults £2.50 Children under 15:
The Ballad of Wallis Island

 

The Ballad of Wallis Island is a witty, warm, and quietly affecting comedy-drama about second chances — in love, in friendship, and in the stories we tell ourselves. Charles (Tim Key), a lonely but endearingly awkward lottery winner, lives on a windswept Welsh island with one extravagant dream: to reunite his favourite folk duo, McGwyer & Mortimer. When Herb (Tom Basden) and Nell (Carey Mulligan) — once bandmates and lovers — accept his invitation to perform a one-off private concert, their arrival turns Charles’s fantasy into reality, and reality into something far more complicated.

As rehearsal begins, the island’s salty air stirs up the past: unfinished songs, unsent apologies, and the stubborn pride that split them in the first place. Herb, nursing a faltering solo career, braces for awkward truths; Nell, long retired and guarded, finds herself pulled back toward the music that once defined her. Meanwhile, Charles struggles to keep his dream on track, improvising grand gestures as old tensions threaten to sink the show.

Beautifully performed and peppered with deadpan humour, the film balances bittersweet nostalgia with the thrill of playing together again — the way a melody can disarm us and a harmony can say what words can’t. With its coastal atmosphere, gently barbed dialogue, and a lovely original songbook, The Ballad of Wallis Island leaves audiences smiling — and maybe a little misty-eyed — at the possibility that we can put things right, one tune at a time.

See you Friday 7th November. Bar, Mulled Wine, Teas and Ice Creams as usual! The Cinema Team