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Elizabeth: The Golden Age DVD
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- ASIN : B07FQNRXB8
- Item Weight : 2.46 ounces
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If you have any sense of what it is to an individual in a heartless society, you will never get a moment to breathe, so mesmerizing is Kapur's direction and the simply balletic cinematography. Every costume is a statement of the character's feelings at every moment and the progression of color leads you to the ending that you know you're going to reach, but still can't is going to come to fruition.
In the decades to come, "Elizabeth-The Golden Age" will become the movie that the critics just didn't know how to approach. In this year of absolutely mediocre films (excepting "Michael Clayton")I cannot believe that this film was not on everybody's Top Ten List.
But then we as a film-going public do not appreciate the operatic, the sensuous, the heroic. We gravitate toward the bleak, violent worlds of the Coen Brothers and Clint Eastwood that foster hopelessness and alienation.
In the future, when critics are rediscovering "Elizabeth--The Golden Age," remember you heard it here first.
Having said this, I loved the film. Why? I could not take my eyes off of Cate Blanchette. Not only is she strikingly lovely, she has the sort of charisma that I associate with the greatest of movie actors--Katherine Hepburn and Glenda Jackson come to mind at once, as well as the incomparable Meryl Streep. Blanchette mesmerizes--her humanizing of Elizabeth feels just right: she shows us a vulnerable and (in many quarters) despised woman learning how to be not only be a great ruler, but also how to accept the costs of her fate.
I'm afraid that apart from Geoffrey Rush, Blanchette was ill-served by her supporting cast (Ralph Finnes was simply awful strutting through "Elizabeth" and the fellow who played Raleigh was mishandled by the director--he should not have been at the center of this film), but this lack of decent supporting performances mattered not one bit. The ending--the "Protestant WInd," which I would guess many viewers find exciting, felt contrived and anti-climactic, but then the film sags every moment that Blancette isn't the center of the action.
Blanchette is the film, and it is for her performance that I give it four stars.