Directed by: Roger Michell
Staring: Jim Broadbent, Dame Helen Mirren & Fionn Whitehead
Director: Roger Michell /UK 2021
June 1st 2023 Starring: Jim Broadbent, Dame Helen Mirren & Fionn Whitehead
Roger Michell’s final feature film brings good-natured, Ealing-style energy to the 1961 true story theft of Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington. Jim Broadbent is in his element playing Kempton Bunton, a Robin Hood figure using the publicity of the theft as a platform to pressure the government to invest more in care for the elderly – he had long campaigned for pensioners to receive free television. What happened next became the stuff of legend. Only 50 years later did the full story emerge – Kempton had spun a web of lies. The only truth was that he was a good man, determined to change the world and save his marriage – how and why he used the Duke to achieve that is a wonderfully uplifting tale.