Margrete: Queen of the North (2021)
(Margrete den første)
Country: DK/SV/NOR/ICE/CZ/POL/FR/BEL
Technical: col/2.35:1 120m
Director: Charlotte Sieling
Cast: Trine Dyrholm, Søren Malling, Morten Hee Andersen, Jakob Oftebro
Synopsis:
The Queen who united Scandinavian kingdoms behind her in the fourteenth century, in 1402, attempts a marriage alliance between England and her stepson when a dishevelled figure arrives purporting to be the long dead king Oluf. The envoy grows cold, the courtiers align themselves, the prince regent grows restive, while she searches her soul for a way out, unable even to trust to her archbishop.
Review:
What ought to have been a magnificent, roistering blend of Hamlet and La Reine Margot ends up fizzling like an iron in the pan. The fault lies not with the cast and settings, which are chilling enough, but with a sluggish script which, having announced that what follows is an embroidered fiction based on historic characters, proceeds to dither for hours while nothing happens, waisting an opportunity.
(Margrete den første)
Country: DK/SV/NOR/ICE/CZ/POL/FR/BEL
Technical: col/2.35:1 120m
Director: Charlotte Sieling
Cast: Trine Dyrholm, Søren Malling, Morten Hee Andersen, Jakob Oftebro
Synopsis:
The Queen who united Scandinavian kingdoms behind her in the fourteenth century, in 1402, attempts a marriage alliance between England and her stepson when a dishevelled figure arrives purporting to be the long dead king Oluf. The envoy grows cold, the courtiers align themselves, the prince regent grows restive, while she searches her soul for a way out, unable even to trust to her archbishop.
Review:
What ought to have been a magnificent, roistering blend of Hamlet and La Reine Margot ends up fizzling like an iron in the pan. The fault lies not with the cast and settings, which are chilling enough, but with a sluggish script which, having announced that what follows is an embroidered fiction based on historic characters, proceeds to dither for hours while nothing happens, waisting an opportunity.
(Margrete den første)
Country: DK/SV/NOR/ICE/CZ/POL/FR/BEL
Technical: col/2.35:1 120m
Director: Charlotte Sieling
Cast: Trine Dyrholm, Søren Malling, Morten Hee Andersen, Jakob Oftebro
Synopsis:
The Queen who united Scandinavian kingdoms behind her in the fourteenth century, in 1402, attempts a marriage alliance between England and her stepson when a dishevelled figure arrives purporting to be the long dead king Oluf. The envoy grows cold, the courtiers align themselves, the prince regent grows restive, while she searches her soul for a way out, unable even to trust to her archbishop.
Review:
What ought to have been a magnificent, roistering blend of Hamlet and La Reine Margot ends up fizzling like an iron in the pan. The fault lies not with the cast and settings, which are chilling enough, but with a sluggish script which, having announced that what follows is an embroidered fiction based on historic characters, proceeds to dither for hours while nothing happens, waisting an opportunity.