3.Great Expectations

United Kingdom

Director: Mike Newell

Acclaimed British director Mike Newell, who has directed films like Four Weddings and a Funeral, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Donnie Brasco, has brought his new film to the Beijing International Film Festival.

Great Expectations, based on Charles Dickens' classic novel adapted for the screen. The film has brought together an array of stars including Jeremy Irvine, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter and Holliday Grainger. This is the story about the vanishing and recurrance of the dreams or "great expectations" of main character Pip, of becoming a member of the upper class.

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