He said: “We set the film in Wakefield, it could have been in other Yorkshire towns, in Halifax, it's that sort of size. “Going back every mine has disappeared and the whole countryside has been landscaped. It is rather fine, Wakefield, and I though it was the right place to set it, rather than in Bradford or Leeds.”

Based on a recent Alan Bennett play which has been described as a love letter to UK's National Health Service, Richard Eyre's film, with a screenplay adapted by Heidi Thomas, is set in a fictional Yorkshire hospital specialising in geriatric care which is threatened with closure due to cost cutting.

Release. Allelujah had its world premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was released on 17 March 2023 by Pathé in France and Switzerland and in the United Kingdom through Warner Bros. Pictures.