A really enjoyable and sometimes moving film about an unlikely subject - the boys who have to stay behind at Christmas in a posh New England private school and the curmudgeonly classics teacher who gets lumbered with looking after them. Good acting, clever script, some unexpected plot developments, and art direction that convinced my friends who watched it with me that it really was made in the 1970s - rather than being made in 2022 but set in the 1970s. It even had the old-style "British Board of Film Censors" insert at the beginning.
Watched at Lansdown Film Club, and even though the film was two hours long it went by quickly, with no napping at all.
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