Yesterday started off well enough. Armed with cute new shoes and a perfect day off attitude I set off to walk my way to further happiness - birthday lunch with the ladies. Soon in, the shoes had turned evil and my mood was fueled by distinct pain. Rescued by the TTC, crab cakes, pecan pie, laughs and a good samaritan armed with band-aids, we trudge forward.
A Royal Affair
Mads Mikkelsen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Alicia Vikander
I love me a good period piece. Add political intrigue and a tragic romance and I'm in, hook line & sinker. A Royal Affair is simply a masterpiece, detailing the true story of the epic romance and love triangle between a German doctor, the queen of Denmark, and her deranged king. Amidst this romance is a very solid political drama, dealing with the ideals of the Enlightenment and the attempt to forge forward with a new kind of country. Heavy? Yes. But brilliant. Just brilliant. From sets to score to costumes to acting this film hit all the high notes for me. Mads, best known for his turn as awesome Bond villian Le Chiffre in Casino Royale, was so, so good. A classic tortured idealist brought down by love and the love of power and a nasty coup. The young actor playing the mad King was plucked out of theatre school - pretty awesome when you consider how scary good he was, and playing our tortured Queen was one of the most beautiful actresses I have seen on screen in a long time. She must love period pieces too as she's also in Anna Karenina. All in all, a really high calibre movie full of my favourite things: love; drama; intrigue and corsets.
We're in the home stretch now. Three more days, but 8 more movies. Talk about back end loaded.
Tonight, Return of The Firth with Arthur Newman and English Vinglish, which is completely what it sounds like when people are talking to me these days ...
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| Happy Birthday, Violet! |
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