I typically dislike remakes, particularly when the earlier version—the 1951 adaptation starring Michael Redgrave—is such a strong dramatic work. However, Albert Finney seemed like just the right person to take on this role and present his own view of this grumpy professor of ancient languages at a public school as he approaches retirement. Mike Figgis has modernized Rattigan’s writing to place it in the 1990s, but th…