"This is the ONLY time in its history that anyone has stolen anything from the National Gallery." What a story to tell! Sony Pictures Classics has released a brief behind-the-scenes featurette for the British crime comedy film The Duke, which originally premiered in 2020 at the Venice Film Festival that fall. In between that premiere and with all the pandemic delays, the film's director Roger Michell passed away (in late 2021) and this is now his final film. It's finally opening in the US this month, with a nationwide expansion in May. In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60 year old taxi driver, steals Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. This is the story of how, why, and who he was. It turns out he was just a bumbling British guy who didn't like being forced to pay for the BBC and wanted to come up with a scheme to make them change. Jim Broadbent stars as Kempton, with Helen Mirren, Matthew Goode, Charlotte Spencer, Fionn Whitehead, and John Heffernan. It is a delightful film, and this featurette captures that charm perfectly. I hope some folks will still go out and see this when it opens in theaters soon. ›››
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