Nov 30th   
The Choral*  (12A)        
(Electric Palace, Harwich)          

(GB 2025)     
Sony Pictures Classics/BBC/Screen Yorkshire. 113m.

In 1916 an impoverished Northern choral society losing most of its young men to the Western Front hires a controversial German-educated choirmaster to conduct Elgar's Dream of Gerontius.
Semi-period drama by Bennett, wonderfully literate as always with him, and also authentically capturing the musical rehearsal process, although inconsistent as a story, with the now familiar politically correct casting out of kilter with the period.

Written by: Alan Bennett.
Producers: Kevin Lander, Nicholas Hytner, Damian Jones.
Director: Nicholas Hytner,
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Roger Allam, Amara Okereke, Taylor Uttley, Shaun Thomas, Mark Addy, Alun Armstrong, Robert Emms, Simon Russell Beale (as Elgar).
Photography: Mike Eley.
Music: George Fenton.