Good in parts

Rating: 4/10 (5 January 2019)

There are some funny scenes and, of course, the acting skills of the three main protagonists are amazing. It is so welcome and unusual to find a mainstream film with three great parts for women that don't depend on sexiness. Unfortunately I did not enjoy the film much at all. It would have been better to stick closer to the historical facts because the most blatant inventions were also the weakest parts of the plot. For instance, the rabbits? ridiculous and unbelievable, the poisoning of Sarah and her subsequent convalescence in a bordello and the eye patch - what? When the Queen says she has lost 17 children, we feel sad for her and then we look around for a husband. Where is he? If he is dead, why is he never mentioned? And the ending, oh God, whatever is going on for the interminable last 10 minutes? And finally, the weirdest. most irritating and inappropriate sound track I have heard for a long time. The lesbianism was fun.