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‘Great 8’ 2025: Ashley Walters’s Debut Feature ‘Animol’ Among Titles Set For Cannes Market With The BFI
BFI will present all the features to international buyers in Cannes.
When the flamboyant Henry Paget arrives in 1890s North Wales from France to claim his aristocratic inheritance, his theatrical flair and defiant eccentricities send shockwaves through the upper-class elite, much to the amusement of the local townspeople. The Times praised him as “the powerhouse writer/performer behind the greatest Dylan Thomas biopic yet.” He won a BAFTA Cymru Award in 2019 for his portrayal of a real-life serial killer in Manhunt, but in recent years has focused increasingly on writing and directing. Natasha Walters, writing in Vogue, called it, “One of the most striking coming of age stories I have ever read.” Her second novel Once Upon a Time in England won the Somerset Maugham Prize and The Lemon Grove, her most recent, was a critically acclaimed best-seller that she is currently adapting for TV.
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