An intoxicating historical romance

Rating: 10/10 (14 March 2008)

I had read the book and now I had just seen the film with my mother. I thought both book and film are excellent. I did get confuse of the genre though, I mean is it an historical romance? or an historical drama? But I know the film is an historical romance because about the two sisters, Mary and Anne Boleyn pitting against each other for King Henry's affection. After Henry (Troy's Eric Bana) tires of his queen, Katherine of Aragon, he initially takes Mary as his mistress who bears him a bastard son. But Anne manipulates herself into the bedroom of the king forcing him finally to marry her on the promise that she will bear him a male heir to the throne. Mary is thus reduced to "The Other Boleyn Girl".
You know throughout the film I couldn't believe that Mary & Anne were very close to each other. But after Mary attended his majesty's wounds after an hunting accident. And at the palace Henry & Mary play "that's-not-belly-button-that's-not-my-finger;" then Mary bear him a bastard son. She also "squealed" on Anne of her secret marriage to Henry Percy. Now Anne hates Mary, but of course Mary was there for Anne as a queen 'til the end after all that happen during her reign and...well let's not go there. You will to see the film for yourself, for those who love a historical romance like myself.