Allelujah (2022)
Country: GB
Technical: col 99m
Director: Richard Eyre
Cast: Jennifer Saunders, Bally Gill, Russell Tovey, David Bradley, Judi Dench, Derek Jacobi, Jesse Akele
Synopsis:
A geriatric hospital in the north of England is due for closure, but the Indian doctor retains a spirit of optimism, and the redoubtable ward nurse, beset with requests for beds from the other hospitals, has a strategy of her own. Matters come to a head when a local TV crew's visit coincides with an appeal to save the 'Beth', and a management consultant working for the minister comes to visit his dad.
Review:
Variably acted, and oddly detached from reality (are there really still such hospitals in existence?), this queasy comedy cannot make up its mind whether to be a black comedy or political tract. Representations are too broadly drawn for a filmed piece (it was an Alan Bennett play), and it all bears the unmistakable stamp of its creator: dreary subject matter illuminated by shafts of bathos, scatological and sexual gallows humour, a vanilla slice or two.
Country: GB
Technical: col 99m
Director: Richard Eyre
Cast: Jennifer Saunders, Bally Gill, Russell Tovey, David Bradley, Judi Dench, Derek Jacobi, Jesse Akele
Synopsis:
A geriatric hospital in the north of England is due for closure, but the Indian doctor retains a spirit of optimism, and the redoubtable ward nurse, beset with requests for beds from the other hospitals, has a strategy of her own. Matters come to a head when a local TV crew's visit coincides with an appeal to save the 'Beth', and a management consultant working for the minister comes to visit his dad.
Review:
Variably acted, and oddly detached from reality (are there really still such hospitals in existence?), this queasy comedy cannot make up its mind whether to be a black comedy or political tract. Representations are too broadly drawn for a filmed piece (it was an Alan Bennett play), and it all bears the unmistakable stamp of its creator: dreary subject matter illuminated by shafts of bathos, scatological and sexual gallows humour, a vanilla slice or two.
Country: GB
Technical: col 99m
Director: Richard Eyre
Cast: Jennifer Saunders, Bally Gill, Russell Tovey, David Bradley, Judi Dench, Derek Jacobi, Jesse Akele
Synopsis:
A geriatric hospital in the north of England is due for closure, but the Indian doctor retains a spirit of optimism, and the redoubtable ward nurse, beset with requests for beds from the other hospitals, has a strategy of her own. Matters come to a head when a local TV crew's visit coincides with an appeal to save the 'Beth', and a management consultant working for the minister comes to visit his dad.
Review:
Variably acted, and oddly detached from reality (are there really still such hospitals in existence?), this queasy comedy cannot make up its mind whether to be a black comedy or political tract. Representations are too broadly drawn for a filmed piece (it was an Alan Bennett play), and it all bears the unmistakable stamp of its creator: dreary subject matter illuminated by shafts of bathos, scatological and sexual gallows humour, a vanilla slice or two.