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Unsung British comedy The Ballad of Wallis Island is a modern day Local Hero, writes BRIAN VINER

Unsung British comedy The Ballad of Wallis Island is a modern day Local Hero, writes BRIAN VINER

BRIAN VINER: A pair of films open in cinemas today, each as British as a cream tea and both set way out west, yet strikingly different in tone. One is a hoot and the other anything but.

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