Le Duc
The Duke
Réalisation:
Roger MichellPhotographie:
Mike EleyMusique:
George FentonActeurs·trices:
Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Fionn Whitehead, Anna Maxwell Martin, Matthew Goode, Jack Bandeira, Aimée Kelly, Charlotte Spencer, Sian Clifford (plus)VOD (1)
Résumés(1)
En 1961, Kempton Bunton, un chauffeur de taxi sexagénaire, vole à la National Gallery de Londres le portrait du Duc de Wellington peint par Goya. Il envoie alors des notes de rançon, menaçant de ne rendre le tableau qu’à condition que le gouvernement rende l’accès à la télévision gratuit pour les personnes âgées. Cette histoire vraie raconte comment un inoffensif retraité s’est vu recherché par toutes les polices de Grande Bretagne, accomplissant le premier (et unique) vol dans l’histoire du musée. (Pathé Films)
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Critiques (1)
It's one of those cute British pictures, like a porcelain dog with a pipe, sitting in a rocking chair. Lovely for the mantlepiece, makes for a good mood and a feeling of home for a while, but forgettable. They made the main character and his family too slick for my taste. A bunch of cute little creatures, local goofballs, friendly fools who are like children. Their purity sheds light on our distorted and hard world. It's clichéd, it's trite, and I don't think the protagonist's image of himself as a local hero would agree with such a portrayal. Or at least, I hope so. I hope he get a restraining order forbidding them to portray him as an impractical knucklehead who might be right about something, but otherwise we have every right to look down on him. IN A NUTSHELL: How to fight the system when no one even notices you're fighting.
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