Scots actor David Tennant will move a shade down on this year’s Glasgow Film Festival (GFF).
The former Dr Who star will attend a shutting celebration on 26 Feb for a universe premiere of his latest film, Mad To Be Normal.
Also starring Michael Gambon and Gabriel Byrne, a film is about a life of Scots psychiatrist RD Laing.
The 13th festival opens on 15 Feb with a screening of Handsome Devil, starring Sherlock actor Andrew Scott. ‘Stunning performance’
GFF co-director Allison Gardner said: “I am so vehement to share a news about a good opening and shutting galas.
“Handsome Devil is a genuine crowd-pleaser with a joyous suggestion that creates it a ideal film to launch a festival.
“David Tennant gives an positively overwhelming opening as RD Laing in Mad To Be Normal and it seems usually wise that Glasgow should have a honour of hosting a premiere of a film about one of a city’s many complex, charismatic figures.”
RD Laing was seen as a radical when he set adult a medication-free village for psychiatric patients in London in a 1960s.
The film also facilities Elizabeth Moss who starred in Mad Men and Girl, Interrupted.
A documentary array about successful art author John Berger, patrician The Seasons in Quincy, has also been combined to a GFF report after his genocide on 2 January. Indy music
The outcome of a five-year plan by Tilda Swinton, Colin MacCabe and Christopher Roth in partnership with a composer Simon Fisher Turner, a documentary is done with 4 films on opposite aspects of Berger’s life and will be shown on 24 and 25 February.
The full festival programme is to be minute after in Jan though events already announced embody a live song opening involving Alex Kapranos and Stuart Braithwaite.
The ABC uncover will follow a special screening of documentary Lost In France, looking during a arise of Scotland’s eccentric song stage and bands such as Mogwai, Arab Strap and Franz Ferdinand.
The 2017 GFF programme also celebrates Canadian cinema and a purpose of women in thrillers.
Glasgow City Council personality Frank McAveety said: “GFF is a prominence on a city’s informative calendar.
“The opening celebration is always an sparkling event, heralding a commencement of 11 packaged days of film in a UK’s cinema city.
“It’s quite good to see that a famous Glaswegian will be decorated on shade for this year’s shutting celebration film.”
