James Griffiths’s buzzy UK-shot and set comedy The Ballad Of Wallis Island received its first UK festival screening Friday ...

The Ballad of Wallis Island is a brand new British comedy starring Carey Mulligan, and from the cast to release date, here's ...

Based on co-writers Tom Basden and Tim Key’s own 2007 short ... that they know how to use their finely tuned situational comedy to balance laughter and sorrow in a way that warms the heart.

A wise man once told me that “humor conceals a deep sadness.” In that spirit, “The Ballad of Wallis Island” is a gentle ...

Equal parts drama, buddy comedy and musical ... The problem is that Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden) and Nell Mortimer (Carey Mulligan), former lovers and bandmates, haven't seen or spoken to each ...

Key's Charles is a sensitive, kind man who uses awkward colloquialisms ("wowsers in your trousers!") to compensate for his lack of social graces. At heart, he's just a fan. "The Ballad of Wallis ...

Mortimer-McGwyer (Carey Mulligan and Tom Basden) back together. His fantasy quickly turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home ...

I knew I’d have to include James Griffiths’ “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” a twee-sounding British comedy about a folk musician named Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden) who plays a gig on a remote ...

BASDEN: This is Tom. I think, you know ... how you balanced that sort of overt comedy and the relationships that bolster the narrative? BASDEN: We knew that we wanted the film to go somewhere ...

Tom Basden as Herb McGwyer ... property to prove that they know how to use their finely tuned situational comedy to balance laughter and sorrow in a way that warms the heart.