Capo
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Post by Capo on Dec 29, 2006 0:15:10 GMT
The Queen Stephen Frears 2006 UK / France / Italy Screenplay: Peter Morgan; Producers: Andy Harries, Tracey Seaward; Photography: Affonso Beato; Editing: Lucia Zucchetti; Music: Alexandre Desplat; Cast: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Sylvia Syms. In the several days following Princess Diana's death, the Queen of England's reputation comes under threat, and is saved by newly-elected Prime Minister Tony Blair. There is one moment here in which the camera sweeps us away into a breathtaking shot of rural England, craning high over head and belying any suggestion of either CGI or even an aircraft of some sort. As a whole, though, it looks like a shot-for-TV film, the kind of topical two-parter that might find its way onto channel 4; nothing particularly wrong with that, although with the aesthetic flatness comes an emotional emptiness, of vague interest because of performances, but little to none to those who are not interested by the English monarchy, the English government, or Princess Diana's death. Frivolous.
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