The story of Bernard Jordan’s escape from a care home to attend D-Day landing anniversary events in France is this year’s choice for the May film tour, organised by access>CINEMA and the Irish Film Institute to coincide with the Bealtaine Festival. Based on a true story, Michael Caine is brilliantly convincing as the escapee Bernard Jordan who defies authorities and sets out to join his fellow veterans. In what became her final performance, Glenda Jackson gives a wonderful last hurrah as wife Irene in this moving depiction by two screen icons of an enduring marriage and the lasting impact of war.

The screening on Wednesday 29th will be Open Captioned.

Notes by Alicia McGivern