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- Helen Mirren and Jim Broadbent
- February 25th 2022
- Roger Michell
Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren play a longtime married couple in Roger Michell’s heartwarming comedy.
The Duke originally premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September 2020, and after multiple delays, it is finally being released in cinemas.
Roger Michell’s last film is a comedy-drama which tells the true story of Kempton Bunton (Jim Broadbent), an eccentric fellow who is always campaigning for social justice and on his soapbox about his latest cause, such as free TV licences for OAPs.
His outspoken and chatterbox nature often gets him into trouble at work and he struggles to hold down a steady job and provide for his family, something which often frustrates his long-suffering wife Dorothy (Helen Mirren).
In the 1960s, Bunton was put on trial accused of stealing Francisco Goya’s painting of the Duke of Wellington from London’s National Gallery, hiding it in his home in Newcastle, and then voluntarily bringing it back.
The plot sounds ridiculous but it’s true!
Since the remarkable true story is so bizarre, it made...
