Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5060002835128
Format: Color
Label: Miramax
Manufacturer: Miramax
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-04-24
Running Time: 103
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: 2006

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Summary: Mrs. Parker-Bowles "THE QUEEN"
Comment: I was only an child in the 3rd grade when Princess Diana Died.. I later grew up to find out how much of an wonderful spirit and beautiful person she was.. In the news, I would hear how the tabloids and the royal family would speak about Diana. When I saw "THE QUEEN", it opened my eyes even more for me to realize how much the royal family would degrade her in such a disrespectful way but, it also shows the tenderness of HER MAJESTY has for the boys. This is a really good movie but also a short movie...

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Summary: The Monarchy could have fallen then
Comment: To confront the Queen of England, Tony Blair and the death of Lady Diana, the Princess of Wales, was dramatic at the time but has totally aged today. And the film has aged to. This big vignette, this enormous cameo in normal life that this week after the tragic end of a young woman was has become quaint, charmingly quaint but with little meaning left. During that week, or even that summer, the monarchy nearly fell in England but the Queen, though surrounded by too many people who were deaf and blind, managed to hear the piece of advice given to her by Tony Blair and she followed it and saved that monarchy. Is that what happened or not? That is not the problem. It is reassuring to believe it is what happened. But it is also important to understand that in today's world what counts is public opinion. We may think public opinion is looking for emotional and sentimental empathy instead of real deep inner grief. But this public opinion remains the yardstick with which we are to measure and determine our behavior. Apparently Stephen Frears wants to make us believe that Elizabeth II did feel and understand the necessity to accept that rule. Something of the kind surely happened. Yet the film is in no way transcendingly immortal. The best part remains Helen Mirren who is embodying a Queen that is superbly heart raking and soul moving.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines

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Summary: This one is worth it!
Comment: A brief summary would be that this film is about QE2's relationship with Tony Blair and her action (and inaction) the week after Diana's death in '97. My cousin Marcy is a huge Diana freak and won't see it because of the views. I found the film adaptation of history interesting, and there really was a blurred line between what actually happened and what didn't happen. It was meshed together from what happened publically, interviews with some people (publically and off the record), and fictional creative license.

This was one of the best movies of the year. I honestly don't think it will win Best Picture (it is nominated) because the entire thing wasn't great. For example, the cinematography bothered us from time to time. The guy who played Tony Blair was well done, and he, uncanningly, looked like him. I liked the juxtaposition between his family and the royal family. Now onto Helen Mirren. Anyone who votes against her for the Best Actress award is a fool. She's a shoo-in. She will win. I said it here first. Helen Mirren BECAME QE2 in this film. Sometimes I watch actors or actresses and think "Damn, so and so is doing a job playing so and so" but it wasn't like that for me here. When Mirren was out driving around and being herself as the vulnerable woman who never wanted to be Queen, this was when she was her best. (No spoiler here, Diana's dead.)

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Summary: Coming into through the modernity !
Comment: The film basically focuses in two well decisive moments in England, 1997. The first was the election of Tony Blair, May 2 1997 and his first formal contact with The queen; and then the tragic and fatidic August 30th , 1997 in which Diane Princess left us.

The basic dilemma between tradition and modernism ; to face the British people and join with them in a common grief , through behind-stage bitter opinions among the members of the Real Family are contrasted with the discrete with the pragmatism of Blair, who despite his youth, knew to perceive the social atmosphere and the public opinion.

On the other hand, we realize how the media influenced day by day the political behavior, that feed back to Blair to make daily advises to his Majesty to change her mind.

Through an unerring camera work, Stephen Frears built a convincing, absorbing and full rounded movie, with the superb performance of Helen Mirren, one of the national artistic patrimonies of U.K.

Don't miss it.

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Summary: The Queen
Comment: I thought this was a very moving depiction of the life of the Queen as well as about the family's response to Diana's death. I came away feeling pity for Elizabeth II in her position although she is far better off in the world than I am. It portrayed a difference in personal freedoms, and as someone once told me with knowledge comes responsibility.

I have only been aquainted with Mirren's movies in the past two years. I think she is superb as the Queen, she nailed this one all the way. She had me convinced she really was the Queen and I must mention Cromwell. I have been watching this man for a lot of years and he is such a gifted actor. It is pure pleasure watching him on the screen. His roles always seem perfectly suited to him. Excellent.

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Editorial Reviews:

Helen Mirren reigns supreme in The Queen, a witty and ingenious look at a moment that rocked the house of Windsor: the week that followed the sudden death of Princess Diana in 1997. Diana's death came at just the same time that Prime Minister Tony Blair (played by the bright Michael Sheen) was settling into his new government--and trying to figure out the delicate relationship between 10 Downing Street and Queen Elizabeth II (Mirren). A large portion of the British population was trying to figure out the Windsors that week, as Elizabeth remained stiff-upper-lip and largely mum about the death of the beloved princess. In Peter Morgan's skillful script, we watch as Blair grows increasingly impatient with the Royals, who are sequestered in their Scottish estate while the public demands some show of grief. Prince Philip (James Cromwell, in good form) clumsily decides to take Diana's sons hunting, while a sympathetically-treated Prince Charles (Alex Jennings) displays some frustration with his mother's eerie calm.

None of this conveys how funny the film is, or how deftly it flows from one scene to the next. Director Stephen Frears (Dirty Pretty Things) deserves great credit for that, and for the performances, and for the movie's marvelous sense of well-roundedness; you could see this movie and groan at the cluelessness of the Royals and their outmoded existence, or you might just sympathize with showing reserve in a world that values gross public displays of emotion. But either way, you'll marvel at Mirren, who makes the Queen far more alert and human than one might ever have imagined. --Robert Horton

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