The Duke
Directed by ROGER MICHELL
Starring JIM BROADBENT, HELEN MIRREN, FIONN WHITEHEAD
Released 25 FEBRUARY
As Joni Mitchell sang in ‘Big Yellow Taxi’, “You don’t know what you’ve, , and under his belt, he was a purveyor of lively, premium-edged dramas that always aimed for widespread appeal. The tragedy of his death is compounded by the fact that his swansong, , is also one of his most lively, resonant and well-rounded works, a cheeky, Ealing-esque farce in which ultra-loquacious Geordie odd-jobber Kempton Bunton (Jim Broadbent), sets about stealing the eponymous Goya from the National Gallery with a plan to ransom it back to the government.
