Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 124m
Director: Josie Rourke
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Jack Lowden, Joe Alwyn, Guy Pearce, Ian Hart, David Tennant
Synopsis:
Catholic Mary Stuart returns from France and attempts to unite Protestant Scotland under freedom of conscience. But her preoccupation with succession and the English throne distracts her from the scheming within her own kingdom, and her continental ways are not to the taste of her homeland.
Review:
Handsomely appointed and cogently plotted piece of Tudor history, though compression of a twenty-five year period inevitably gives rise to some unevenness in dramatic flow. The difficulties of ruling as a woman, amid the force majeure scheming of male councils, emerges as the principal theme, causing Mary to be farouche and Elizabeth to renounce her sex.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 124m
Director: Josie Rourke
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Jack Lowden, Joe Alwyn, Guy Pearce, Ian Hart, David Tennant
Synopsis:
Catholic Mary Stuart returns from France and attempts to unite Protestant Scotland under freedom of conscience. But her preoccupation with succession and the English throne distracts her from the scheming within her own kingdom, and her continental ways are not to the taste of her homeland.
Review:
Handsomely appointed and cogently plotted piece of Tudor history, though compression of a twenty-five year period inevitably gives rise to some unevenness in dramatic flow. The difficulties of ruling as a woman, amid the force majeure scheming of male councils, emerges as the principal theme, causing Mary to be farouche and Elizabeth to renounce her sex.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 124m
Director: Josie Rourke
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Jack Lowden, Joe Alwyn, Guy Pearce, Ian Hart, David Tennant
Synopsis:
Catholic Mary Stuart returns from France and attempts to unite Protestant Scotland under freedom of conscience. But her preoccupation with succession and the English throne distracts her from the scheming within her own kingdom, and her continental ways are not to the taste of her homeland.
Review:
Handsomely appointed and cogently plotted piece of Tudor history, though compression of a twenty-five year period inevitably gives rise to some unevenness in dramatic flow. The difficulties of ruling as a woman, amid the force majeure scheming of male councils, emerges as the principal theme, causing Mary to be farouche and Elizabeth to renounce her sex.