The Duke (2020)
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 95m
Director: Roger Michell
Cast: Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Fionn Whitehead, Matthew Goode
Synopsis:
1961: an autodidact from the North-East takes a stand on many issues, which is why he is unable to hold down a job, but his refusal to pay for his TV licence becomes a campaign for the aged and leads to the far more audacious theft of a portrait from the National Gallery.
Review:
Broadbent does Geordie very well, and this is an amiable extension of his often cantankerous persona. Yet another story based on fact concerning our 'pixillated' nation (Mrs Harris, The Phantom of the Open), it is also a consideration of the differing ways to grieve, but reserves its trump card for the court scenes, where comedy and philosophy are mined to their mutual benefit.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 95m
Director: Roger Michell
Cast: Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Fionn Whitehead, Matthew Goode
Synopsis:
1961: an autodidact from the North-East takes a stand on many issues, which is why he is unable to hold down a job, but his refusal to pay for his TV licence becomes a campaign for the aged and leads to the far more audacious theft of a portrait from the National Gallery.
Review:
Broadbent does Geordie very well, and this is an amiable extension of his often cantankerous persona. Yet another story based on fact concerning our 'pixillated' nation (Mrs Harris, The Phantom of the Open), it is also a consideration of the differing ways to grieve, but reserves its trump card for the court scenes, where comedy and philosophy are mined to their mutual benefit.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 95m
Director: Roger Michell
Cast: Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Fionn Whitehead, Matthew Goode
Synopsis:
1961: an autodidact from the North-East takes a stand on many issues, which is why he is unable to hold down a job, but his refusal to pay for his TV licence becomes a campaign for the aged and leads to the far more audacious theft of a portrait from the National Gallery.
Review:
Broadbent does Geordie very well, and this is an amiable extension of his often cantankerous persona. Yet another story based on fact concerning our 'pixillated' nation (Mrs Harris, The Phantom of the Open), it is also a consideration of the differing ways to grieve, but reserves its trump card for the court scenes, where comedy and philosophy are mined to their mutual benefit.