13.Song For Marion

United Kingdom

Director: Paul Andrew Williams

The other British film to be shortlisted was director Paul Andrew Williams' Song For Marion, starring Terence Stamp, Gemma Artertonand Vanessa Redgrave.

Terence Stamp assumes the role of a cantankerous elderly man, who does not understand his wife's hobby of singing in a choir, however, after her passing, he once again begins to smile and begin a new life after taking her place in the choir.

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