Review: 'The Choral' on Netflix — A Ralph Fiennes Wartime Drama That Keeps Its Emotions at Arm's Length
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John Serba
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A review of 'The Choral' on Netflix, a World War I-set British drama directed by Nicholas Hytner and written by Alan Bennett, starring Ralph Fiennes as a choir director struggling to stage an oratorio as his chorus members are lost to the draft. The review notes the film's typically British restrained emotions and questions whether its blend of comedy and tragedy truly moves the audience.
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· 3 pulledThe British emotions, they are so very buttoned up in The Choral
It has bits of comedy and bits of tragedy, but do any of those bits move us to laugh or cry or feel much of anything at all?
A Ralph Fiennes-led drama in which he plays a choir director tasked with staging an oratorio during a time when the chorus keeps losing members thanks to the draft
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