Lady Jane (1986)
Country: GB
Technical: col 142m
Director: Trevor Nunn
Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Cary Elwes, John Wood
Synopsis:
Lady Jane Grey is manipulated by her relatives to be the all too brief successor to Edward VI of England.
Review:
Solid history-book film making with fashionably authentic production values and overcast cinematography, a troupe of reliable British actors on call, and a couple of executions. There is a tension, however, between this worthiness and the romantic tragedy at the centre of the narrative, a vehicle for a budding new actress, and its persistent, soapy theme music. Then there is the over-expanded length, a result no doubt of the dramatically necessary humanisation of the historical facts. No more suited to the fashions of the 80s than Revolution, though nowhere near as bad.
Country: GB
Technical: col 142m
Director: Trevor Nunn
Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Cary Elwes, John Wood
Synopsis:
Lady Jane Grey is manipulated by her relatives to be the all too brief successor to Edward VI of England.
Review:
Solid history-book film making with fashionably authentic production values and overcast cinematography, a troupe of reliable British actors on call, and a couple of executions. There is a tension, however, between this worthiness and the romantic tragedy at the centre of the narrative, a vehicle for a budding new actress, and its persistent, soapy theme music. Then there is the over-expanded length, a result no doubt of the dramatically necessary humanisation of the historical facts. No more suited to the fashions of the 80s than Revolution, though nowhere near as bad.
Country: GB
Technical: col 142m
Director: Trevor Nunn
Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Cary Elwes, John Wood
Synopsis:
Lady Jane Grey is manipulated by her relatives to be the all too brief successor to Edward VI of England.
Review:
Solid history-book film making with fashionably authentic production values and overcast cinematography, a troupe of reliable British actors on call, and a couple of executions. There is a tension, however, between this worthiness and the romantic tragedy at the centre of the narrative, a vehicle for a budding new actress, and its persistent, soapy theme music. Then there is the over-expanded length, a result no doubt of the dramatically necessary humanisation of the historical facts. No more suited to the fashions of the 80s than Revolution, though nowhere near as bad.