Old story told like an old story

Rating: 5/10 (21 October 2009)

The British are by right famous for their costume dramas. But this is a failure with characters as stiff as the men's collars and a picture language which very much reminds of the paintings from the period. The years around queen Victoria's coronation.
You can of course make such a movie must about private life, with the prime ministers Wellington, Peel and most of all, Melbourne, turning up. And it can be filmed theater too, but here it is just theater and not a very splendid one.
Her majesty deserved better. To quote her: -"We are not amused". Or like she said about Gladstone: -"He talks to me like a public meeting".