Towner Cinema - Mad about the boy - Noël Coward
June 16th - 18th
Here is a brisk documentary about Noël Coward, who sailed to New York aged 20 with £17 in his pocket, and by his 30th birthday was the highest-paid author in the western world.
In his lifetime he wrote 500 songs and 60 plays – acting in more than 70.
At its best, this is an efficient film that does a solid, succinct job of fitting a lot of life into a little over 90 minutes.
Noël Coward died aged 73 in 1973. But in some ways this feels like a Wikipedia entry read out loud, never quite getting under the skin of a complicated man.
Review by The Gardian
The Towner Cinema is screening "Mad about the boy".
Friday 16th June at 2.00pm
Saturday 17th June at 7.30pm
Sunday 18th June at 4.00pm
Tickets online or at the Towner. Admission £ 9.50, Concessions £ 8.50.