A Brutal, Dark and Humorous Movie

Rating: 6/10 (19 November 2008)

A brutal, dark and humorous movie. These words best express ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE. You will learn something about the royal court and about the history of England. The film is beautifully overwrought, although the main plot (a romantic triangle between the queen, discoverer and lady of court) is about nothing. Most of the time we are looking at these three characters, instead we could watch strategies, motives and intrigues of Spaniards. Spaniards appear in the movie only a couple of seconds (really only a couple!), paradoxically the story of the film is set in the war between England and Spain. It seems that the director had forgotten that it should not have been a movie about an imaginary love, but about Elizabeth and her most important role in the history of Europe- the war! Similarly seemed the final fight: do not expect any effects, most interesting things about it, you will hear in the “subtitled epilogue”. I must admire genial Cate Blanchett, who played perfectly in ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE worn in perfect clothes.