56th BFI London Film Festival

The 56th BFI London Film Festival, in partnership with American Express, is pleased to announce that Great Expectations will close the Festival on Sunday 21 October."Visually ravishing and rippling with immediacy, this new adaptation of the classic novel, directed by Mike Newell provides a fitting conclusion to both the 56th BFI London Film Festival and London's bicentenary celebrations of life and work of Charles Dickens" says the Festival Director, Clare Stewart.

With an award-winning cast including Ralph Fiennes as Magwitch and Helena Bonham Carter as the mysterious Miss Havisham, the well known story of Great Expecatations is directed by Mike Newell (Four Weddings and A Funeral and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) and adapted for the big screen by David Nicholls.

The full Festival programme will be announced on Wednesday 5 September.