Official Trailer
Our Review
- Tom Bayden, Tim Key, Carey Mulligan
- May 30th 2025
- 100
- James Griffiths
Tim Key plays a lonely lottery winner who pays his favourite musician to play a one-night-only concert on his remote island.
If you only know Tim Key for his work in comedy, you’ll see him in a whole new light thanks to his dramatic performance in The Ballad of Wallis Island.
In this British comedy, Key plays lonely lottery winner Charles, who pays singer-songwriter Herb (Tom Basden) a lot of money to perform a one-night-only concert on the secluded Wallis Island.
A major fan of the defunct folk duo McGwyer-Mortimer, Charles also invites Herb’s ex-girlfriend and former bandmate Nell Mortimer (Carey Milligan) – without Herb’s knowledge – in the hope of staging a reunion. As you can imagine, the plan doesn’t go down well.
Based on the 2007 short film also starring and written by Key and Basden, The Ballad of Wallis Island is a delightful, charming and distinctly British movie.
It tells a simple story packed full of heart, laughs and engaging characters and is more moving than you might expect. Prepare for this to hit you right in the...
