THE QUEEN
If you need proof of the claim made by the Alan Alda character in Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors that «comedy is tragedy plus time», you only need to see The Queen, the movie re-creating those days in 1997. It is intelligent, hilariously funny and, ultimately, rather moving. The central thrust of the picture, where it moves from caricature to character, lies in the transformation of Blair and the Queen. Initially, Blair is presented as a dodgy opportunist, a man of no great principle. In those few September days in 1997 he's transformed, not exactly into an ardent monarchist but into recognising and understanding what the Queen has been through during the years since her father reluctantly succeeded his brother 50 years earlier. (Philip French)
- James Cromwell - Farmer Arthur Hoggett
- Helen Mirren
- Michael Sheen
- Sylvia Syms
- Peter Morgan
- Affonso Beato
- Peter Lindsay
- Lucia Zucchetti
- Alexandre Desplat
- Alan MacDonald
- Consolata Boyle
- Daniel Phillips
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