Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 94m
Director: Roger Michell
Cast: Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Samuel West, Olivia Colman, Olivia Williams
Synopsis:
At Franklin Roosevelt's country retreat in the late thirties, a distant cousin of the President, Margaret 'Daisy' Suckley, is invited to share his quieter moments and a relationship develops between them, just as the Royal Visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth takes in a night at the Roosevelt mansion followed by hot dog picnic.
Review:
In actual fact the rather affecting content surrounding the stuttering Bertie and an aloof Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon bears little if any relationship to the main sentimental attachment between Roosevelt and his mistress, making this very much a film of two parts, a sort of 'Driving Miss Daisy' cum 'The King's Speech Revisited'. The period trappings are impeccably in place, the scenery captivating, but it is the performances that deliver the pleasures - if, I suspect, ones that will not live long in the memory.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 94m
Director: Roger Michell
Cast: Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Samuel West, Olivia Colman, Olivia Williams
Synopsis:
At Franklin Roosevelt's country retreat in the late thirties, a distant cousin of the President, Margaret 'Daisy' Suckley, is invited to share his quieter moments and a relationship develops between them, just as the Royal Visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth takes in a night at the Roosevelt mansion followed by hot dog picnic.
Review:
In actual fact the rather affecting content surrounding the stuttering Bertie and an aloof Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon bears little if any relationship to the main sentimental attachment between Roosevelt and his mistress, making this very much a film of two parts, a sort of 'Driving Miss Daisy' cum 'The King's Speech Revisited'. The period trappings are impeccably in place, the scenery captivating, but it is the performances that deliver the pleasures - if, I suspect, ones that will not live long in the memory.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 94m
Director: Roger Michell
Cast: Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Samuel West, Olivia Colman, Olivia Williams
Synopsis:
At Franklin Roosevelt's country retreat in the late thirties, a distant cousin of the President, Margaret 'Daisy' Suckley, is invited to share his quieter moments and a relationship develops between them, just as the Royal Visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth takes in a night at the Roosevelt mansion followed by hot dog picnic.
Review:
In actual fact the rather affecting content surrounding the stuttering Bertie and an aloof Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon bears little if any relationship to the main sentimental attachment between Roosevelt and his mistress, making this very much a film of two parts, a sort of 'Driving Miss Daisy' cum 'The King's Speech Revisited'. The period trappings are impeccably in place, the scenery captivating, but it is the performances that deliver the pleasures - if, I suspect, ones that will not live long in the memory.