MAVERICK: THE EPIC ADVENTURES OF DAVID LEAN

David Lean – one of the greatest film directors of all time – redefined what movies could be. His singular vision and dogged determination to film the impossible made him a maverick: a master of his art whose films delivered sweeping stakes, love and beauty even as his own life remained messy, rootless and painful. In a landscape that now avoids risk, Lean stood apart: a flawed genius whose story traces cinema's modern foundations. Raised in a strict Quaker household, dismissed by his own father as a dullard, and barred from the cinema until he was fifteen, Lean rose from film editor to director under Noël Coward. He went on to make some of the screen's most romantic epics – Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, A Passage to India --  yet romance eluded his own life: six marriages, countless affairs, and a son he rarely saw. Told largely in his own words, with contemporary directors reflecting on his legacy, it's a personal journey through his life and work. Q&A with director Barnaby Thompson following screening.