Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool (2017)

BBC Two, 11.20pm ★★★★

Annette Bening lights up the screen as the Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame in this biopic about her relationship with the younger British actor Peter Turner (Jamie Bell). Derived from Turner’s own memoir, the film delves into their two-year history against a gauzy backdrop of Los Angeles and New York, rich with the elegiac pathos of past-it celebrity.