Great actresses - not real history

Rating: 7/10 (29 April 2008)

Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman are great in this movie. The opposition of temperament between the 2 sisters is well played by these two gorgeous actresses. The atmosphere of the royal court is also well described.
However, don't expect from this movie to see a reconstitution of these historical events that changed the destiny of England (the separation with the Catholic church). The movie is full of historical inaccuracies.
But, even if not historical, the story is dramatically intense and seems real.
Forget the real story, see it as a fiction. A story of love, jealousy, power, domination, cruelty, forgiveness. A whirl of violent passions that will leave you breathless and knocked out at the end of movie.