The Queen is a really involving and surprisingly funny film about one of the strangest weeks of the 20th century.

Rating: 8/10 (24 March 2007)

It's outrageous to presume such intimacy with public figures who are still alive and still so mysterious. It is brave to make such a film when Di's grave is still fresh. But we need more brave, outrageous films about events and people we have such keen feelings about, not fed to us via documentaries or retrospective BBC bio-pics.
We'll never know what the Queen & co really experienced that week. And if it was nothing like the film, then at least it challenges the popular logic of villain/hero that does neither party justice. I feel a little differently about Her Majesty now, who is probably scuttling around Windsor chasing deer metaphors as we speak...