2024 - Don't miss The Duke, this unusual biopic is leaving Canal+ soon

And if you devoted your evening to an improvised art thief, with the English comedy The Duke ? The film is available on Canal+ until March 6, 2023.

Are you looking to snuggle up on your sofa, in front of a light, rather short film, to see on an SVOD platform? SO The Duke will be perfect for you, on this Thursday, March 2, 2023. We therefore recommend this British film, inspired by a totally delirious true story.

But beware: the feature film will disappear from the Canal + catalog on Monday March 6, 2023, at 11:59 p.m., precisely. So you only have a few days left to revel in the finesse of The Duke.

**The film The Duke on Canal+, a sweet and improbable English comedy**

Newcastle, 1961. Sixty-something British Kempton Bunton takes the stand and declares himself not guilty. Is he on trial for murder? No, he is “simply” accused of having stolen the portrait of the Duke of Wellington, painted by Goya, from the National Gallery in London. How did it come to this?

The Duke tells us this crazy story, taken from a real case, taking us back 6 months. Kempton Bunton then hopes to become a great theater writer, while chaining odd jobs and protesting against the next television license fee, also applied to the elderly.

The Duke // Source: Nick Wall

Latest film by British filmmaker Roger Michell (Love at first sight in Notting Hill, Blackbird), died in 2021, The Duke is a light comedy, led by the burlesque talent of Jim Broadbent (Game of Thrones, Cloud Atlas). As his wife and son, Helen Mirren (The Queen, Nutcracker and the Four Realms) and Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch) form a nice duo in this joyful recreation of the 1960s.

We are thus quickly swept away by this incredible anecdote of a harmless pensioner suddenly wanted by all the police in the United Kingdom, accomplishing the first (and only) theft in the history of the National Gallery. Thanks to delicious punchlines and a spirited plot, The Duke is in line with unpretentious English comedies, but ideal for an elegant sofa evening, on this Thursday, March 2, 2023.

And don’t miss this opportunity: the feature film is leaving the Canal+ catalog this Monday, March 6, 2023. So you have no excuse to miss this biopic funny and playful. Especially since its duration is significant, since it does not exceed 1h30. So what are you waiting for?

Watch if you liked: Thunderbolt in Notting Hill; The speech of a king ; Pride; In Mary’s Shadow
Must see if you are looking for: English comedy; improvised thief; biopic ; museums and paintings; colorful characters; humor ; unusual true story; staggered; feel good

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