Thoughtful & thought provoking

Rating: 9/10 (12 May 2007)

Really enjoyed this film. It's well paced and the characterisation of the leading people is all very convincing - not an easy job to do when the subjects are still alive and in the public eye.
Could have been an overly melodramatic or heavily political storyline (as I suspect it would have been if produced in the USA), but I think the producers have done a fantastic job of portraying it as a very human-interest story. They have treated the background politics in what seems a very even-handed way. Really got me and my wife thinking about the some of the conversations and emotions that would have been taking place behind the scenes during the week of Diana's death.
This film does a fantastic job of making you think of the tremendous public & political forces that shaped peoples behaviour in that week of history ... and of the sort of "background machinery" that influences & effects public offices week-in and week-out. It brought me to the conclusion (with the benefit of 10 years of history) that maybe the Queen might have been better not to have kowtowed so much to the irrational public hysteria. Watch it and see what you decide.