Elizabeth The Golden Age (2007)
Country: US/GER/GB/FR
Technical: DeLuxe 115m
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Clive Owen, Rhys Ifans, Samantha Morton, Tom Hollander, David Threlfall
Synopsis:
Queen Elizabeth is threatened by a plot to put Mary Queen of Scots on the throne and meanwhile continues to have stirrings of romantic longing when she meets the dashing Sir Walter Raleigh However, she must gird her loins for battle at the approach of King Philip of Spain's armada.
Review:
The kind of pageant-like historical film one thought they had stopped making sixty years ago, and one which fails to fulfil the promise of its sweatily claustrophobic predecessor. It is entertaining and prettily illustrated, but for the most part the queen appears to spend her time in Winchester cathedral and there are some hilarious faux pas. All of which may well be irrelevant, however, for the film may well be an attempt to meditate on the mythmaking potential of royalty, one line about 'the people's queen' carrying particular resonance at the turn of the twentieth century.
Country: US/GER/GB/FR
Technical: DeLuxe 115m
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Clive Owen, Rhys Ifans, Samantha Morton, Tom Hollander, David Threlfall
Synopsis:
Queen Elizabeth is threatened by a plot to put Mary Queen of Scots on the throne and meanwhile continues to have stirrings of romantic longing when she meets the dashing Sir Walter Raleigh However, she must gird her loins for battle at the approach of King Philip of Spain's armada.
Review:
The kind of pageant-like historical film one thought they had stopped making sixty years ago, and one which fails to fulfil the promise of its sweatily claustrophobic predecessor. It is entertaining and prettily illustrated, but for the most part the queen appears to spend her time in Winchester cathedral and there are some hilarious faux pas. All of which may well be irrelevant, however, for the film may well be an attempt to meditate on the mythmaking potential of royalty, one line about 'the people's queen' carrying particular resonance at the turn of the twentieth century.
Country: US/GER/GB/FR
Technical: DeLuxe 115m
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Clive Owen, Rhys Ifans, Samantha Morton, Tom Hollander, David Threlfall
Synopsis:
Queen Elizabeth is threatened by a plot to put Mary Queen of Scots on the throne and meanwhile continues to have stirrings of romantic longing when she meets the dashing Sir Walter Raleigh However, she must gird her loins for battle at the approach of King Philip of Spain's armada.
Review:
The kind of pageant-like historical film one thought they had stopped making sixty years ago, and one which fails to fulfil the promise of its sweatily claustrophobic predecessor. It is entertaining and prettily illustrated, but for the most part the queen appears to spend her time in Winchester cathedral and there are some hilarious faux pas. All of which may well be irrelevant, however, for the film may well be an attempt to meditate on the mythmaking potential of royalty, one line about 'the people's queen' carrying particular resonance at the turn of the twentieth century.