Our Leaders. Ourselves.
The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an overt display of mourning.
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Grave, classical in form, prestige and earnest.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Sep 20237/10
I'm not sure if Stephen Frears was really just trying to kick-start the Tony Blair fan club when he made this highly speculative and frankly rather unkind feature about how Queen Elizabeth II (Helen Mirren) - and, to an extent, her family - dealt with the aftermath of the death of the divorced Princess of Wales in Paris. Mr Blair (Michael Shannon) has only just been elected and together with his pretty openly hostile (to the monarchy) wife Cherie (Helen McCrory) heads to the palace for his appointment audience. When the tragedy does ensue, the Royal Family are at Balmoral in Aberdeenshire and the remainder of this film - intercut with occassional news actuality - postulates on just how the relationship between the prime minister and his Sovereign might have played out in the face of the growing and totally irrational public outpourings of grief and frustrations following the accident. Mirren and Shannon are both on great form here and even if the former is more of a mimic than an actress with this part, she still imbues enough characterisation for us to accept the plausibility that this might just have been the response of the actual Queen Elizabeth. It's beautifully shot and it wa
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Cast
- Helen MirrenThe Queen
- Michael SheenTony Blair
- James CromwellPrince Philip
- Helen McCroryCherie Blair
- Alex JenningsPrince Charles
- Roger AllamRobin Janvrin
- Sylvia SymsQueen Mother
- Paul BarrettTrevor Rees-Jones
- Tim McMullanStephen Lamport
- Douglas ReithLord Airlie
Crew
- Stephen FrearsDirector
- Peter MorganWriter
- Affonso BeatoDirector of Photography
- Alexandre DesplatOriginal Music Composer
- Lucia ZucchettiEditor
- Christine LanganProducer
- Tracey SeawardProducer
- Andy HarriesProducer
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