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Martin Scorsese
Producer -
Jenny Shircore
Hairstylist -
Julian Fellowes
Writer -
Stephen McLaughlin
Scoring Mixer -
Chris Lowe
Art Direction -
Tim Headington
Producer -
Ilan Eshkeri
Original Music Composer -
Graham King
Producer
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CinemaSerf 6/1/2024 7:34:50 PM
Historically - as far as the cinema is concerned - Queen Victoria was born well into her seventies. Rarely has anyone tried to depict her early years and sadly, this is a rather shallow attempt so to do. Emily Blunt portrays the Queen with some fortitude but the rather soppy performances from Rupert Friend and Paul Bettany don't give us anything like a proper comprehension of the struggle she had, as a (young) woman, to establish herself at the head of an empire riddled with chauvinism, ambition and pomposity. Miranda Richardson as her mother takes up some of the slack in this lacklustre effort with the occasional, wise, contribution from Harriet Walter as the dowager Queen Adelaide welcome too. If it is a love story, then it just about works - anything else is just too far out of reach.
Emily Blunt
Queen VictoriaMark Strong
Sir John ConroyPaul Bettany
Lord MelbourneMichiel Huisman
ErnestJim Broadbent
King William IVDavid Horovitch
Sir James ClarkRupert Friend
Prince AlbertRachael Stirling
Duchess of Sutherland