Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlN1b0ok4D0
April Parwich Film Show
Lady in a van
The Lady in the Van tells the true story of Alan Bennett’s strained friendship with Miss Mary Shepherd (Maggie Smith), an eccentric homeless woman whom Bennett (Alex Jennings) befriended in the 1970s before allowing her temporarily to park her Bedford van in the driveway of his Camden home. She stayed there for 15 years. As the story develops Bennett learns that Miss Shepherd is really Margaret Fairchild (died 1989), a former gifted pupil of the pianist Alfred Cortot. She had played Chopin in a promenade concert, tried to become a nun, was committed to an institution by her brother, escaped, had an accident when her van was hit by a motorcyclist for which she believed herself to blame, and thereafter lived in fear of arrest.
Certificate 12
Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_in_the_Van
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/the-lady-in-the-van/review/
FRIDAY 22nd April 7.45PM
Free Entrance. Refreshments. Raffle.
- Silent projection
- Hi Fi Sound
- Special hi-fi headphones for those with hearing difficulties, please ask.
PARWICH.ORG 
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