Production Year: 1996 - Action/Adventure - Director: Tom Clegg - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring:Daragh O'Malley, Oliver Cotton, Jason Durr, Sean Bean, Allie Byrne
Production Year: 2002 - Action/Adventure - Director: Vincenzo Natali - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:Lucy Liu, David Hewlett, Anne Marie Scheffler, Joseph Scoren, Matthew Sharp, Jeremy Northam
Production Year: 1964 - Action/Adventure - Director: Cyril Endfield - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring:Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Michael Caine, Nigel Green
Production Year: 1995 - Action/Adventure - Director: Tom Clegg - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring:Sean Bean, Daragh O'Malley, Allie Byrne, Oliver Cotton, Emily Mortimer, Michael Cochrane
Advantages: Contemorary British subject Disadvantages: Could be seen to be a boring film by future generATIONS
I had this one on my selection from easy cinema for a while. There was so much publicity surrounding the film including HelenMirren winning an oscar I could not miss it.
The film is basicaly about Tony Blairs confrontation with the royal family about the way in which affairs of state should be handled.The issue is that of Princess Diana's funeral and how it should be presented to the public. In fact a lot more is at stake, Tony is newly elected and he sees his popularity as being very important to his public image. The film opens with Tony being newly elected and his first meeting with the Queen which is more or less a disaster for Tony as he does not seem to be treated with much respect.
When the tradgedy strikes and Diana is killed Tony's spin doctor sees an opportunity for him to capture public popularity and drafts a "peoples ...
damien.gallery 03.09.2007
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Advantages: Superb script and acting, challenging your views, simply fantastic Disadvantages: Some scenes are just speculative
Crory ... Cherie Blair
Sylvia Syms ... Queen Mother
Roger Allam ... Robin Janvrin
Mark Bazeley ... Alastair Campbell
You can purchase the DVD on play.com for £9.99. Written by Peter Morgan and directed by Stephen Frears. The film runs for 103 minutes, and has a certificate of 12A.
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mummy2harry 08.09.2007
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of The Queen (DVD)
Advantages: The performances of the whole cast, subtle and powerful Disadvantages: Perhaps a bit pro-royalist
One of the most critically acclaimed and award-winning films of last year was Stephen Frears?s The Queen, starring the Oscar, Bafta and pretty much every other award-winning Helen Mirren as Elizabeth II.
The film begins with the election of 1997, when Tony Blair (played here by Michael Sheen) became PM for the first time. We watch as he nervously conducts his first meeting with the queen, in which she has to formally ask him to become Prime Minister and all that official stuff.
The film then moves forward to Sunday 31st August 1997, which everyone over a certain age will remember was the day when Princess Diana and Dodi Al-Fayed were killed in the Paris car crash. Saddened, but hardly grief-stricken, the Royal Family (Prince Phillip played by James Cromwell, the Queen Mother by Sylvia Sym and Prince Charles by Alex Jennings ...
l-m-n-o-p 09.07.2007 (10.07.2007)
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