a film revisited - an ongoing love

Rating: Null/10 (2 May 2006)

I have seen this film again over the weekend on a German broadcast network.
I must admit, I still loved it, even though that I definitely know more about history nowadays than I knew when it came up.
It doesn't matter if it is 100 % historically accurate or not, but it follows the events rather closely, and there is no liberty in the script to make things look more dramatic than they actually were. Any good screen writer knows that the actual happenings, usually, were more dramatic than any inventions.
The acting is flawless, maybe for the exception of J. Fiennes who exaggerates in my opinion quite a little, for let us face it, even if he loved Elizabeth, as later on Essex obviously did, it was all about influence and power etc. etc., but it does not change the overall good impression due to the other actors.
Camera, Direction, etc. are great, an unimportant remark maybe about the camera moving up upon the barbecue of the heretics at the very start, which seems to me a little to modernistic for the rest of the camera's handling of the film.
But still, a very interesting and very well played film, which, should anyone have children who do have to bother with that period, will make it much easier for them to understand what happened, rather than having to rely upon some dry history books.
P.S. The Rating R - "for sexuality and violence" is just ridiculous