Alan Rickman to appear at Glasgow Film Festival

ALAN Rickman is to make a special appearance at the Glasgow Film Festival for the premiere of the new period drama he appears in with Kate Winslet, organisers have confirmed.

By BRIAN FERGUSON

Published 28th Feb 2019, 14:03 GMT

Alan Rickman will attend the Glasgow Film Festival for the premiere of his new film A Little Chaos. Picture: Getty

Rickman, who has directed and stars in A Little Chaos, will be at the Glasgow Film Theatre on 21 February for a gala screening of the film, which received its world premiere at in Toronto last year.

Winslet plays a strong-willed landscape designer who challenges sexual and class barriers when she is chosen to build one of the main gardens at King Louis XIV’s new palace at Versailles.

Rickman, who took on directing duties for a second time on A Little Chaos, plays the monarch with a penchant for lavish statements.

Actors Gary Lewis and David Hayman, and writer William McIlvanney, have already been confirmed for special appearances in this year’s festival, which starts a week today with the European premiere of new Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts comedy While We Were Young.