Not really a movie buff, I usually check my watch a couple of times during the few performances I attend. Not this time. In fact, I felt I was being cheated when I realized this film was coming to its close. The actors seemed to show an excellent display of personalities that walked a fine line (and crossed it a lot of times) between incarnation and cartoon. Loved the King Uncle. Took me back to my Air Force days. Queen Victoria was really the queen, like an icebreaker moving through dangerous waters, she was both captain and lookout as she elegantly went where no man had ever gone before. How did she get historically tagged with being so prim and proper? The Victorian era will always be know as the period in which the really interesting stuff was hidden, concealed and officially "ignored". Perhaps that came from her remoric politicians and their interrelationship. Prince Albert was of course imortalized in a can and for 100 years introduced young men to their first (and probably their best) taste of tobacco. I would call it a good movie and recommend it to anyone who was expecting to become a queen, or who might have to become one someday, or who might discover they have married one.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Young Victoria at Footcandle Film Society in Hickory NC
Not really a movie buff, I usually check my watch a couple of times during the few performances I attend. Not this time. In fact, I felt I was being cheated when I realized this film was coming to its close. The actors seemed to show an excellent display of personalities that walked a fine line (and crossed it a lot of times) between incarnation and cartoon. Loved the King Uncle. Took me back to my Air Force days. Queen Victoria was really the queen, like an icebreaker moving through dangerous waters, she was both captain and lookout as she elegantly went where no man had ever gone before. How did she get historically tagged with being so prim and proper? The Victorian era will always be know as the period in which the really interesting stuff was hidden, concealed and officially "ignored". Perhaps that came from her remoric politicians and their interrelationship. Prince Albert was of course imortalized in a can and for 100 years introduced young men to their first (and probably their best) taste of tobacco. I would call it a good movie and recommend it to anyone who was expecting to become a queen, or who might have to become one someday, or who might discover they have married one.
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Thanks for coming out to the show! Glad you enjoyed it. Even though I am not a fan of period biographies, this one was fun to watch. Hope to see you next month!
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