1998 - Rated R - 2 hr 4 min
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes, Vicent Cassel, Emily Mortimer
Time for me to geek on you for a second.
This movie is fantastic. Sorry, but the portrayal of Elizabeth I here is unparalleled. Cate Blanchett is Elizabeth. Like, for real. Her transition from young, persecuted Lady Elizabeth to the Virgin Queen throughout this film is brilliant.
Joseph Fiennes's Robert Dudley, on the other hand, isn't exactly what I expected. Dudley's more brash, less suave, less Shakespeare-In-Love-y. It works for the movie, but it could have been better. Geoffrey Rush is excellent (no surprise) and look! Thomas Frain! He went from this movie to The Tudors. Huh.
My one regret is that I owned the sequel The Golden Years so I could finish up her story. Guess I'll put that on my wish list (not that I need another movie to watch right now). And so we move onward...
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