Genteel manners of first world war story about repressed passion delivered with surprising sexual candour Alan Bennett's new film, directed by Nicholas Hytner, is a quiet and consistent pleasure: an unsentimental but deeply felt drama which subcontracts actual passion to the music of Elgar and leaves us with a heartbeat of wit, poignancy and common sense. Music itself mysteriously exalts and redeems the community, an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AM on November 6, 2025