Showbiz news: Michael Caine to play great composer

Showbiz news: Michael Caine to play great composer

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norman lebrecht

December 10, 2015

The film is called Youth. Mr Caine is 82.

Rachel Weisz plays his daughter.

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Here’s some blurb:

Caine plays Fred Ballinger, whose annual spa stay begins as an emissary of Queen Elizabeth arrives to offer him a knighthood — if he would only conduct his most famous composition for Her Majesty.

Her Majesty is renowned for doing musical deals in exchange for state honours.

The make-or-break factor in the film will be who does the conducting for Michael Caine. (And who they get as concertmaster, of course.)

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