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17Trust Points
BrianSez's Review
Summary - Very Good 3.5
Ok, so although I was dragged in to this as an unwilling participant — who could argue with watching Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson for a few hours? They both convincingly played Ann Boleyn and Mary Boleyn through the drama of being consort and wife of Henry the 8th. Eric Bana, an unknown to me, was a strong figure in this movie as well. I’m not the best judge, but I was also quite impressed with how they pulled off all the costumes and mannerisms of this Tudor period in England. Drama, intruige, deception, and scheming to get ahead permeates throughout and it is all quite convincing as the way things happened. But perhaps the best quote of the movie was from Kristin Thomas as the Boleyn matriarch when giving advice to her daughter Anne: “Observe the other women of the court. See how they allow the men to believe they are in charge. That is the art of being a woman.” Yep — that’s exactly how it all went down. But women in Henry’s court always seem to have to take the bad with the good….