fatvegan

Unlike Emily, I didn't like The Queen. It was well made, quite funny and very interesting, but I felt so voyeuristic all through it. I really like the queen, and this movie only made me like her more, but I can't help but feel that she must have been pretty sad to see this film made. If the film hadn't spent so much time and dialogue emphasising how important privacy was to the queen (I lost count how many times Helen sad "private and diginified"), the intrusion might have been less confronting. The film managed to be dignified, and clearly the film-makes have a lot of time for the queen, but that doesn't make it any less invasive. Maybe it's a good thing that more of the story has been told. But I still wish they had waited until the queen wasn't around to watch her life be dissected like this.

1.5/5