Sad movie about sad people and sad times

Rating: Null/10 (22 January 2009)

Every girl wants to be a princess. They think princesses have many beautiful dresses, a charming prince to dance with and a huge castle to live in. And they do not need to do anything...
The Duchess is a interesting costume drama that shows the real life of Duchess of Devonshire (Keira Knightley). When she was 18, she decided to marry much older prince (Ralph Fiennes) whom she has seen only two times before the marriage. She knew that she has only one task: to give him a masculine child, but she hoped that the love come with time. She was wrong...
The movie is rather slow-paced, very sad, but interesting. It proofs that the reality behind the palace's walls is not as beautiful as it seems and the real prince not always is a prince from the tales. Sad is that the movie portraits the duchess only as a unhappy wife. She was also a trend- setter and a politician figure. We see some scenes about it but they are too rare...