The Artist (PG), opening at Wells Film Centre, is set in 1927. Silent movie star George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is on top of the world.

At his latest screening he stages a scene with a young lady Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo) who later successfully auditions for a part as an extra.

Valentin arrives to star in his next feature, A German Affair, and is entranced by a pair of legs, who turn out to belong to the same Peppy.

Years pass and then studio boss Al Zimmer (John Goodman) introduces sound recording and Valentin is rattled and then fired.

Peppy has done well out of the talkies, but Valentin descends to drink and loses everything, including his wife, in an attempt to revive the silent era.

All this while Peppy's star has been rising but will they meet again?

The British Guide To Showing Off (15) is showing at Strode Theatre, in Street, tomorrow at 7.30pm.

British artist and living legend Andrew Logan, loved the world over by celebrities and misfits alike, takes us under his glittering wing and inside his outrageous, anarchic and spectacular costume pageant: the Alternative Miss World Show.

As the show's master of ceremonies and ringmaster, Logan is the high priest of an esteemed congregation.

He describes the show as his most important artwork; a fabulous living sculpture that spans 40 years of arts and culture.

Using live observational camera, archive and exuberant animation, this documentary charts the mounting of the 2009 show, interwoven with its history, the rise, fall and rediscovery, of both the event and the artist at its centre.

Then showing at Strode Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday, at 7.30pm, is The Awakening (15).

It is 1921 England is overwhelmed by the loss and grief of the First World War.

Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall) visits a boarding school to explain sightings of a child ghost.

Everything she believed in unravels as the "missing" begin to show themselves.