The Duke * * * *
Here's a fun film for a new demographic - the over sixties. Actually the more I think about it, the more it makes sense. Over sixties go to the cinema all the time - probably more than young people - I mean, what else are we going to do? And yet, most films are about dynamic younger people. There should be more films like this.
It stars Jim Broadbent and Hellen Mirren, who was once consistently voted as the sexiest woman alive but not so much today (I know the feeling). Nevertheless, like Jim Broadbent she is still got the charms and remains, as always, a damn fine actor.
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| I mean, do we look like art collectors? |
A rather eccentric man from Newcastle didn't like paying for his Television License (I don't blame him). He ran a solid campaign against it. Everyone thought him a nutcase, especially his long suffering wife.
His primary argument was that for older people, television is a simple comfort that the Government should afford them. He also had many other philanthropic ideas and values.
In the meantime there is some fuss in the papers about the National Galleries Acquisition of a portrait of The Duke of Wellington, for the handsome sum of a hundred forty thousand pounds. If such a famous painting were to go missing, surely the Government would listen to his pleas in order to get it back?
Consequently such a a painting did go missing and was soon in the back of a wardrobe in a council house in a poor area of Newcastle.
The embarrassment to the Gallery and the hapless police brought a good deal of amusement to the press. That such a painting could be stolen so easily and become untraceable. The trial that followed was no less amusing as he developed a Robin Hood persona.
There are a lot of twists to the story - especially at the end, where something is revealed which we never have expected. So don't spoil it for yourself by reading too much about it first!
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