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June 24, 2007
The Queen
A masterful film. Unclear why I missed it in the theatres - probably the crush of movies, the excitement of having a new job, the 1,001 other things I needed to do around that time. In any event, I don't think you have to see this film on a big screen. It definitely helped that I watched it on a large television: the cinematography of Scottish wilderness were breathtaking.
And yet, even though it was a great character study and Helen Mirren definitely deserved all the accolades she got, I still am not sure I want to see it again. It's one of those movies that I'm glad I saw once, perhaps I would pick up some minutiae of the acting on a second viewing, but I really have no desire to add it to my dvd collection. Hooray for Netflix.
Roger Ebert actually wrote another plot recap on this one.
Actually, for all of Manohla's insistence that This Is The Movie to convince you that the Monarchy is Dead, it actually had the opposite affect on me. I hate all the gibber gabber monarchy watch in the States. But this film gave me an appreciation for what the monarchy has meant to England and who they are today, in a way that no amount of coverage of the dating habits of the young princes could possibly accomplish.
Posted by cj at June 24, 2007 10:19 PM