PREVIEW: Downton Abbey: A New Era (PG)

WHO’S IN IT?

Nathalie Baye (Catch Me If You Can), Hugh Bonneville (Paddington), Samantha Bond (Die Another Day), Laura Carmichael (A United Kingdom), Jim Carter (Shakespeare in Love), Raquel Cassidy (Official Secrets), Jonathan Coy (Hell’s Pavement), Brendan Coyle (Me Before You), Hugh Dancy (Adam), Michelle Dockery (The Gentlemen), Kevin Doyle (The Libertine), Michael Fox (Dunkirk), Joanne Froggatt (Starfish), Robert James-Collier (The Ritual), Harry Hadden-Paton (The Little Stranger), Laura Haddock (Transformers: The Last Knight), Sue Johnston (Imagine Me & You), Allen Leech (The Imitation Game), Phyllis Logan (Another Time, Another Place), Elizabeth McGovern (The Chaperone), Sophie McShera (Cinderella), Tuppence Middleton (Jupiter Ascending), Lesley Nicol (West is West), Douglas Reith (The Queen), Maggie Smith (Gosford Park), Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake), Dominic West (300), Penelope Wilton (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Simon Curtis (My Week with Marilyn), director; Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park), writer, producer; Gareth Neame (Downton Abbey) and Liz Trubridge (From Time to Time), producers; John Lunn (Unconditional), composer; Andrew Dunn (The Perks of Being a Wallflower), cinematographer; Adam Recht (The Art of Racing in the Rain), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In the 1930s, the Crawley family – spearheaded by Lord Robert Crawley (Bonneville) and his matriarchal mother the Dowager Countess Violet Crawley (Smith) – decide to get away from the film set that has occupied the estate of Downton Abbey, and head to the South of France where Violet has been mysteriously bequeathed a luxurious villa…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

The worldwide phenomenon that is Downton Abbey is back for second big-screen helpings, this time taking the elite Crawley family and their loyal servants on a trip to the South of France.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 29TH APRIL 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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