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List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $13.99 You Save: $5.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 22 April, 2006 DVD Release : 22 August, 2006 |
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Elizabeth I description Helen Mirren's Elizabeth I could almost be cousin to her Jane Tennison. Like the dedicated detective chief inspector, Queen Bess is not without a heart, but work comes first and any romantic entanglements are doomed to fail. Fortunately, she has her friendships. Directed by Tom Hooper (Prime Suspect 6), this two-part HBO/Channel 4 tele-film begins in 1579. The Virgin Queen has been on the throne for 20 years, but has not married. Her closest relationship is with Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester (Jeremy Irons), whom the council will not allow her to wed. Because Robert wishes to produce an heir, he marries another, garnering Elizabeth's disfavor (and nor is he all that thrilled about her dalliance with Henry, the Duke of Anjou). In time, he'll return to her good graces. As she explains, "Friendship outlasts love and is stronger than love." Then, as his health begins to fails, she'll turn to his stepson, the dashing, if duplicitous Robert Devereaux, the Earl of Essex (Hugh Dancy, the Hooper-directed Daniel Deronda). Meanwhile, Mary, Queen of Scots (Barbara Flynn) plots against her Protestant cousin. Even after Mary makes her exit, plenty of other powerful Catholics will stop at nothing to seize the crown. Marked as much by triumph as tragedy, the role of Elizabeth I has been catnip for many illustrious actresses, notably Bette Davis, Glenda Jackson, and Cate Blanchett. Mirren's multi-faceted portrayal of the queen's golden years is a worthy addition to that canon and Irons is a particularly formidable foil. --Kathleen C. Fennessy |
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| I saw part 2 on TV, couldn't wait for a rerun of part 1, so I immediately went on line and bought it. Boy, am I glad I did!
I have already watched this 2-part movie a few times, for the detail, the richness of the setting, and the amazing dialogues between the characters, especially Queen Elizabeth's lines are superb, gripping, clever... outstanding screen writing! This movie, although it depicts events from QE's early years of reign, centers on her as a middle-aged queen up to the end. Helen Mirren, IMHO, just won her second Oscar for her role in this movie. Her part as a strong, smart woman who has in many ways sacrificed her personal life for "the greater good" is powerful and awesome. You feel for her, you root for her, you even see her pettiness (for being the scorned aging woman) and she makes you forgive her, and mostly her inner struggle which is basically her life's conflict: what is more important--duty or living a full life as every other woman? Her feelings (jealousy, wariness, guilt) toward her cousin Mary Queen of Scots, while we know all the while that history had put Mary's son as Elizabeth's heir. I enjoyed the history details, the productions is very luxurious, in my opinion. Jeremy Irons plays his role well, but it is his stepson, the handsome Earl of Essex that steals Irons' thunder. I was a little bit confused because I thought Elizabeth's great lovestory was with Sir Walter Raleigh, but the drama was so fantastic that in the end I didn't really care. |
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