Oct 11th 
The Great Escaper** (12A)
(Curzon Colchester)                                           
 
(GB/Fra 2023)  
Warner Bros/Pathe/BBC/Ecosse. 96m. ws

A D-Day veteran misses out on a group trip to Normandy, so he sneaks away from his convalescent home and his wife to do the trip himself.
Two veterans on vintage form in this commendably unsensational true-life drama about the perils of old age, and also a moving inverse of Saving Private Ryan where most of the action in flashback is an incidental to the more pressing truth of veterans who feel guilty when their friends were killed long before.

Written by: William Ivory.
Producers: Robert Bernstein, Douglas Rice.
Director: Oliver Parker.
Starring: Michael Caine, Glenda Jackson, John Standing, Wolf Kahler, Danniele Vitalis, Jackie Clune, Ian Conningham, Will Fletcher, Laura Marcus.
Photography: Christopher Ross.
Music: Tony Armstrong.
Editing: Paul Tothill.