A well made but uncomfortable film

Rating: 8/10 (22 August 2009)

Lessons learned from watching "The Other Boleyn Girl". Lesson one: don't be a woman in Renaissance England. Two: if you are a woman in this suffocating era, and King Henry the eighth wants to sleep with you, flee the country if at all possible. If sleeping with Henry is unavoidable, don't be too good in bed and don't under any circumstances get pregnant. Lesson three: too much ambition will kill you and everyone you love.
"The Other Boleyn Girl" is a well made and competently acted film about some truly horrible subject matter. Adapted from Phillipa Gregory's best selling novel, the movie follows the love triangle between the two Boleyn sisters and Henry. Any audience member who has seen the misleading trailer and walks in expecting a historical romance should put that notion out of their heads, this isn't a romance. But it isn't strictly political intrigue either, instead its an unsettling combination of...For more of my review go to http://www.helium.com/items/1433415-the-other-boleyn-girl-review