The Queen (2006)

Not Recommended

UK/France/Italy/USA

Feature Film

Director: Stephen Frears

Writer: Peter Morgan

Cinematographer: Affonso Beato

Composer: Alexandre Desplat

Cast: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Alex Jennings, Helen McCrory, Mark Bazeley, Roger Allam, Sylvia Syms

Following the death of her former daughter-in-law, Diana, The Queen, who merely wishes to grieve privately with her family, is gradually and reluctantly persuaded by the recently elected “Labour” prime minister to become a part of the hysterical mourning of an increasingly and irrationally sentimental British public, in this much-lauded though only mildly effective film, which is generally well crafted though always not entirely credible. Iain.Stott