The Duke

Name: The Duke
Genre: Biography, Drama, Comedy
Released: December 10, 2021
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 80
Cast: Aimée Kelly, Anna Maxwell-Martin, Charles Edwards, Charlotte Spencer, Fionn Whitehead

2021

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Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: December 10, 2021 | R

Starring: Aimée Kelly, Anna Maxwell-Martin, Charles Edwards, Charlotte Spencer, Fionn Whitehead, Helen Mirren, James Wilby, Jim Broadbent, John Heffernan, Matthew Goode, Sian Clifford

Summary: In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60-year old taxi driver, stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery’s history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government agreed to provide television forIn 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60-year old taxi driver, stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery’s history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government agreed to provide television for free to the elderly. What happened next became the stuff of legend. Only 50 years later did the full story emerge – a startling revelation of how a good man set out to change the world and in so doing saved his son and his marriage.… Expand

Director: Roger Michell

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 96 min

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The Guardian Xan Brooks

Sep 14, 2020

What a lovely, rousing, finally moving film this is. Read full review

Deborah Young

Sep 14, 2020

A funny-moving story enjoyably retold with classic British understatement and just the right twist at the end. Read full review

The Playlist Jessica Kiang

Sep 14, 2020

You could dine on nothing but lard for twenty years and still not develop the hardness of heart necessary to avoid being won over by Roger Michell‘s The Duke, a ridiculously charming British comedy that dunks a gamely accented prestige cast into an appealingly milky true story like so many digestives into a warm, well-earned, early evening cuppa. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Sep 14, 2020

The Duke is a romp first and foremost: Michell’s merry direction makes sure of that. But its stars put a small, dignified lump in its throat. Read full review

IndieWire Nicholas Barber

Sep 14, 2020

If you suspect The Duke is on the cosy and nostalgic side of the cinematic spectrum, you might be right. But it’s such an expertly crafted and highly polished piece of warmhearted escapism that it’s difficult to resist. Read full review

Fionnuala Halligan

Sep 14, 2020

Michell’s film is as defiantly traditional as the wallpaper which decorates the Bunton’s house. Read full review

Chris Barsanti

Sep 9, 2021

The film misses an opportunity to delve particularly deeply into the keenly relevant issues of inequality and social disconnection that so animate its protagonist. Read full review

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