The Duke: a Nick Scott Review

Nick Scott our ARTbop Film Reviewer says: “A good comedy is what most of us could use today with such terrible images coming out of Ukraine”.

Fortunately The Duke is not just a comedy but a very well made one. An English comedy set in England. It is a simple story concerning the theft of Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington.

The main character is played to perfection by Jim Broadbent. It’s as though the part had been written especially for him. He is well suppported by other characters including Helen Mirren as his long-suffering wife.

Like most English comedies it is not laugh-a-minute stuff but it is very well written and there are some lines that willl make you laugh out loud.

The film is set in the north of England in Yorkshire and the accents add to the comedy as well as the familiar English attitudes and beliefs about society .It could be said that the location is almost like another character.

This is the kind of comedy not seen in cinemas for some time and well worth seeing

BTW: Tuesday is now $10 day at the Tauranga Rialto and Editor’s Note: the Heading Image is of riding boots. The Duke of Wellington gave his name to boots….Wellingtons!

Nick Scott Nick Scott has a B.A from The University of Waikato where he studied film under Sam Edwards. Nick has retained a keen interest in cinema. He studied Te Reo Maori at Te Wananga O Aotearoa part-time for 3 years and then from 2014 to 2016 Nick collaborated in writing “The Traveller’s guide to Maori Place Names”. Nick is a regular Film Reviewer on ARTbop and has contributed an episodic novel “Temple’s Job”, a creative’s Q&A and a short story Doppelganger (in WORDS)