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Acting
Fiennes at maximum repressed intensity, plus a ghostly Simon Russell Beale cameo.
Direction
Hytner knows exactly when to hold on a face versus flood with voices.
Score
Actual Elgar, actual choirs, actually recorded in Sheffield.

Director
Nicholas Hytner
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