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Sometimes, Always, Never next up Nov. 21
Rockies Film Festival’s second movie of the season is ‘Sometimes, Always, Never.’
Screening on Thursday, Nov. 21 at 8:30 p.m., the film features Bill Nighy as Alan, a widowed tailor with two obsessions: Scrabble and searching for a son who left home years earlier and never returned.
Alan is a bit of a rake and he’s not above hustling strangers for money playing Scrabble.
There’s a beguiling Englishness to this elegant, offbeat comedy-drama, terrifically written by Frank Cottrell-Boyce and directed by feature debutant Carl Hunter. It has a wonderful syncopation in its writerly rhythm and narrative surprises.
The film positively twinkles with insouciance, and is performed with aplomb, particularly by Nighy, who brings a droll sprightliness and deadpan wit to the lead part, but shows how these mannerisms mask emotional pain.
Sam Riley is excellent as the character’s long-suffering son.
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