Kevin Eldon
Born | October 2, 1959 |
Hometown | Chatham, England |
Height | 5'10" (1.78m) |
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Six Minutes to Midnight, review: Eddie Izzard is no match for Nazi schoolgirls
- Dir: Andy Goddard. Cast: Eddie Izzard, Judi Dench, Carla Juri, Jim Broadbent, James D’Arcy, Kevin Eldon. 12A cert, 99 mins The Augusta-Victoria College for Girls was an exclusive finishing school in Bexhill-on-Sea to which high-ranking Nazis sent their daughters from 1932 to 1939. It’s the kind of thing you wouldn’t believe if someone invented it – and yet that setting is the one aspect of the British spy yarn Six Minutes to Midnight that isn’t entirely fabricated. This eccentric attempt at a thriller, set on the eve of the Second World War, is roughly three-fifths John Buchan intrigue to two-fifths Ealing comedy, which suggests a degree of tonal confusion. Cooked up from a screenplay by Eddie Izzard, the Welsh actor Celyn Jones and director Andy Goddard, it has a middle section in which Izzard’s main character, a British spy who poses as a teacher at the school, goes on the run from the local plod, nearly gets caught napping under a groyne, and swipes the outfit of a marching band member to blend in on a summer promenade. The film is like a cheeky seaside postcard with swastikas and cryptography on the reverse. At Augusta-Victoria, the headmistress Miss Rocholl, played with bewildered sympathy by Judi Dench, is none the wiser about the man she’s hired. Thomas Miller (a dapper Izzard) is to all intents and purposes the new English master, recruited to replace a suspicious predecessor who seems to have washed up in the briny. Miller is taken aback by the self-possession of the 20-strong student body – strutting mädchen all, who make teasing comments in German about his lack of virility, and tune into the Führer’s propaganda broadcasts with feisty Sieg Heils. In fact, Miller is reporting back to his spymasters about any evidence of Anglo-Nazi collaboration he can find. Suspicion might begin with Miss Rocholl, a patsy with some rather sentimental notions of pan-Europeanism, but it switches on closer inspection to Ilse Keller (Carla Juri), apparently the only other teacher on site. This staunch mistress has hatched an emergency airlift plan, determined to swipe the girls away from the clutches of the British Secret Service should war break out.
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