The Queen (2006)
This is the story of the death of Princess Diana of Wales and the relationship between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the British Royal Family upon hearing of her death. Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted.
February 10, 1947
18 July 1918, Mvezo, Union of South Africa [now South Africa]
27 January 1940, Los Angeles, California, USA
17 July 1947, Denmark Hill, London, England, UK
January 3, 1945 in Kendal, England, UK
1963, Lambeth, London, England, UK
25 March 1947, Pinner, Harrow, Middlesex [now London], England, UK
17 August 1968, London, England, UK
1 July 1961, Park House, Sandringham, Norfolk, England, UK
19 January 1963, London, England, UK
1947, Northamptonshire, England, UK
8 August 1917, Pembroke, Bermuda
19 August 1946, Hope, Arkansas, USA
30 September 1970, Wantage, Oxfordshire, England, UK
18 December 1946, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
September 17, 2010
Stuffed with stinging truths about swiftly turning winds of public opinion, Stephen Frears' film is a tough, fair-minded and, at times, morbidly satirical depiction of the extraordinary circumstance of leading in grief as well as government.
February 03, 2007
Both [Michael Sheen and Helen Mirren] understand the prickly push-and-pull that defines the fight -- the Gray Monarch v. the Great Modernizer -- and give quiet gravitas to the polite but firm standoffs.
October 27, 2006
We see not only the inner corridors of power, but also sense the inner workings of the royal mind. Stephen Frears' deft direction also gives the film insight and even humor.
April 29, 2009
Surely to be considered at Oscar time.
January 30, 2017
Helen Mirren gives perhaps her most remarkable performance in an already remarkable career.
October 18, 2008
A lesser director might make all of this deadly earnest, but Frears treats it as what you might call a tragi-comedy of manners, perfectly serious but human foibles everywhere.
November 22, 2006
With its lavish imagery and elegant writing, The Queen is a majestic film, and Mirren is the heir apparent to be crowned best actress of the year.
February 09, 2011
The Queen will knock your socks off.
October 27, 2006
Allows us to understand just how heavy the crown really sits.
October 09, 2008
A disappointingly claustrophobic play at sympathy for someone so out of touch with her 'subjects.' And why blow it up for the big screen? . . . Where's the arc? The tragic flaw? The ebbs and flows to her character? . . . A middle-of-the-pack chamber drama
November 03, 2006
In good times and bad, for good or ill, she is the public face of her nation. Mirren, Frears and Morgan let us see just how much a burden that mask has been.
