MOVIE REVIEW: Jim Broadbent is charming in TheDukeFilmUK's socially minded true-crime comedy.
. For British audiences, he’s a more intriguing figure, who created ripples with his TV adaptation of Hanif Kureishi’s. It was a retelling that showed the witty deviousness and social conscience of Michell, and it’s somehow echoed sweetly inIt’s also a reunion with Broadbent, star of his 2014 collaboration with Kureishi,
, for a very British, very absurd crime drama laden with passion for the underdog. In 1961, Francisco de Goya’swas stolen from London’s National Gallery. The police were convinced that it must have been a team of crack art thieves.
If this sounds like an exercise in quirky British historical fun, in reality, what Michell and Broadbent actually created was one last angry cri de coeur. In 2019, the bastards of the British Conservative government got rid of free TV licenses for over-75-year-olds . Meaning that Bunton – at more than one point painted as either a buffoon, a layabout, or a Don Quixote-esque old fool spouting left-wing talking points – was simply ahead of his time.
But disguising the politics is a delightful and idiosyncratic story of an odd duck trying to do the right thing while navigating a home life perpetually under the shadow of a terrible tragedy. It’s never less than touching to see Broadbent in a delicate and sweet dance with Helen Mirren as his very much long-suffering wife, Dorothy, and Whitehead and Bandeira as his sons, dopey-eyed dreamer Jackie and ne'er-do-well bad lad Kenny, respectively.
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