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Elizabeth I
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 6867441002192
Format: PAL
Label: 4dvd
Manufacturer: 4dvd
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 4dvd
Region Code: 2
Release Date: April 17, 2006
Running Time: 240 minutes
Studio: 4dvd
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Sales Rank: 4279

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Better than Cate Blanchets Golden Age!
This is miles ahead of the cate blanchett version. With Helen Mirren and Jeremy Irons as the main cast, acting in the golden age of elizabeth I's reign. With a supurb script and cast list AND! historic acuracy!! (which must be stressed with films portraying hisory!) you cant go wrong.

If i could choose either Elizabeth I Golden Age or this it would be this without hesitation.

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- Excellant but very gory adaption
Being a history nut I really enjoyed this film. It breated life into characters that I have only read about in a book or seen in a documentary.

Although Helen Mirren's role was understandably and correctly lauded we have seen and heard a lot about Elizabeth over the years, for me it was great to see characters such as Francis Walsingham and Robert Dudley fleshed out.

SPOILER ALERT

My one complaint has been mentioned before but deserves another mention. This involves the tortue and the execution scenes, particularly the hanging drawing and quartering scene. Now I agree that it was accurate to the times and I think I can understand why it was in the film but it was shown in a manner that took me by surprise. ... Read More:

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- A Vivid, Colourful and Moving Performance From A Brilliant Actress
Helen Mirren's performance is stunning in this, cementing her position as one of Britain's most charismatic and versatile actors. This film charts the life of another impressive woman, Elizabeth the first, during various tumultuous stages of her life.

What is particularly brilliant about this film is the way in which Mirren so convincingly shows the anguish and difficulty of Elizabeth the First's reign, in an age where Monarchs had purpose, strength and challenging lives. The most convincing part of Elizabeth's struggle which Mirren has perfected is Elizabeth's dilemma when it came to balancing business and pleasure, or more specifically, balancing the greater good of the country with her sexuality and desires. This is part of what makes ... Read More:

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- A great, sweeping portrayal of Elizabeth from age 45 to her death at 69. Helen Mirren shines
This may be a television mini-series but it has the quality, detail and acting superiority of an excellent motion picture. Elizabeth (Helen Mirren) has been on the throne for twenty years. It's 1579 and she is 45 years old. We meet her at the conclusion of a discrete but public examination to establish for all to know that she is capable of bearing a child. The need for her to marry, both to ensure an heir and to ensure her survival as Queen, obsesses her councilors. For Elizabeth, it's not so simple. She is not just a queen, but a sovereign ruler, anointed, in her words, by God. She has the same passionate need for love and intimacy as her subjects. She probably realizes that marriage, in her era, would most likely lead to her own inevitable subordination ... Read More:

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- Brilliant, but inacurate.
I think this is absolutely brilliant. Helen Mirren plays Elizabeth the way i imagened her to be. Jeremy Irons is also fantastic and acting some scenes with a breeze. The only issue i have with this tv/film is that it does have the most horrific executions and tortures i have ever seen in a film e.g if you actually want to see what hung drawn and quartered would have been like to witness then this wont let you down (yuk). Also mary queen of scots being executed is horrific, when the axe comes down the camera is starring right at her neck, it also takes 2 strokes of the axe to cut the head off. (histroricly innacurate). But appart from that its great. Just dont faint while watching the gory bits. Helen mirren does the famous heart and stomach of a king speech ... Read More:

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