Totally Weird!

Rating: 1/10 (14 January 2019)

OK, so we accept that it has not been presented as being in any way historically accurate. So please don't expect any of it to be so. Precious little (if any) is an accurate portrayal of Queen Ann and her historical contributions. That aside, the script is a mind boggling mish mash of events surrounding rivals for Queen Ann's affection in a court where even the dancing jar's as being out of place.
The strong language does abound in a self indulgent way, almost using it to assert itself as a sufficiently arty production to make it permissible. It doesn't perform the role of creating a bawdy tone. It just seems gratuitous. The 'strong sex scenes' are not. Apart from the distant site of a bottom pumping back and forth against who know what pressed to a wall, all else is undercover and left to the imagination. None of it rampant or even lustful.
A sound device is used twice during the film - two long tones followed by a single drum beat. For no apparent reason, other than to make it harder to hear what is being said. It is annoying. Another device used, that annoyed me, was to introduce an 'act' with words on screen that would later be said in it. Not particularly effective and rather trite.
Yes the three main protagonists acted their part extremely well (not something that can be said of all the cast), and the camera work was both imaginative and of an extremely high quality. The awards to those actresses and those involved in that aspect will be well deserved. But I want a lot more than that from a film and I don't enjoy weird for weird's sake - which is what I felt this film is. It is being self indulgently arty-farty with none of the entertainment that should accompany it. The screenplay is, in my opinion, very poor.
I didn't walk out as I kept hoping things would eventually become enjoyable. For me they didn't. Don't waste your time, money, or brain power going to see this insult to our intelligence.