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Elizabeth [HD DVD]

Cate Blanchett (Actor), Geoffrey Rush (Actor), Shekhar Kapur (Director) | Rated: R (Restricted) | Format: HD DVD
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One of the big Elizabethan-era films of 1998, Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth serves up a brimming goblet of religious tension, political conspiracy, sex, violence, and war. England in 1554 is in financial and religious turmoil as the ailing Queen "Bloody" Mary attempts to restore Catholicism as the national faith. She has no heir, and her greatest fear--that her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth will assume the throne after her death--is realized. Still, the late Queen Mary has her loyalists. The newly crowned Elizabeth finds herself knee-deep in dethroning schemes while also dodging assassination attempts. Her advisers (including Sir William Cecil, superbly played by Richard Attenborough) beg her to marry any one of her would-be suitors to stabilize England's empire. No matter that she already has a lover. The passionate Robert Dudley (Joseph Fiennes) is married, however, and shows he cannot stand up to the growing strength of the Queen. With the help of her aide Walsingham (Geoffrey Rush), Elizabeth strikes against her enemies before they get to her first. But her rise ultimately entails rejecting love and marriage to redefine herself as the indisputable Virgin Queen.

Cate Blanchett's Oscar-nominated performance as the naive and vibrant princess who becomes the stubborn and knowing queen is both severe and sympathetic. Her ethereal, pale beauty is equal parts fire and ice, her delivery of such lines as "There will be only one mistress here and no master!" expressed with command rather than hysterics. As striking as Blanchett's performance is the film's lavish and dramatic production design. The cold, dark sets paired with the lush costuming show the golden age of England's monarchy emerging from the Middle Ages. Rich velvet brushes over the dank stones while power is achieved at any price, and with such attention to physical detail, Elizabeth fully immerses you into its compelling chronicle of pioneering feminism and revisionist history. --Shannon Gee

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Good product ! Aug 22 2009
By Maverick
Format:DVD
Fast shipping ! The DVD is working well.

I was just a little disappointed that the French track is not on DVD.

However, the French subtitles are greatly appreciated.

Thank you.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining, but wildly inaccurate July 17 2004
By "helenamaypole"
Format:DVD
If you're not bothered by historical inaccuracies, then go ahead and check out this movie. It's extremely well-acted for the most part, although Fiennes's Dudley turns milksop in an entirely fictitious turn of events that aligns him with a Catholic plot to replace Elizabeth with Mary, Queen of Scots (whose death in the movie is all wrong, too). Events from decades later are all condensed into what is clearly supposed to be the first year or two of Elizabeth's reign (which begain in 1558): Norfolk didn't rebel until the Northern Rebellion in 1569; Elizabeth wasn't excommunicated until 1570; she didn't even enter the Anjou courtship until 1578; and Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded in public, not murdered in her bed, and that not until almost thirty years later, in 1587! Furthermore, in 1558 Lord Robert Dudley was not yet Earl of Leicester (he wouldn't be until Elizabeth gave him that title in 1564, and he was NEVER a duke!), and as another reviewer has pointed out, there's certainly more drama and intrigue in his REAL story than the movie allows -- he was rumored to have murdered his wife, Amy Robsart, after all.

I won't go on, but my point is that there is a hell of a lot wrong with the storyline that didn't even need to be wrong. It's still an entertaining movie, as I mentioned before, and Cate Blanchett really does deliver an exceptional performance. But at least some sort of gesture towards a measure of historical accuracy would have been appreciated.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Elizabeth Jun 17 2013
By msaykaly@sympatico.ca
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is excellent British drama, with wonderful acting, scenery, architecture, and a good review of history, notwithstanding some mis-representation of facts.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Love Elizabeth and this is a good film but this is not historically...
I'm giving it 4 stars because of the glorious Cate Blanchett, but if you're after accuracy, keep walking. Read more
Published 16 days ago by Morrigan
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent
Better than its sequel. Beautifully acted. Cate Blanchett's character progression through the film is masterful. Sets, lighting and cinematography is fantastic. Read more
Published on May 26 2011 by nobody
5.0 out of 5 stars Elizabeth
Nothing .....my daughter told us a bit of the story and it sounded interesting. Delivery was prompt ...........would not hesitate to order from this supplier again.Tks.
Published on Jan 25 2011 by Thomas A. Bulmer
5.0 out of 5 stars Royal Delivery
The delivery was super fast and in great condition. Will order from you anytime.
Thanks.
Published on Sep 28 2010 by Xphile
3.0 out of 5 stars Over-rated "Historical" Fiction
While on the surface, a good movie with mostly fine acting, it suffers substantially by a loss of integrity; revisionist history, with a strong feminist bent, that is enough to... Read more
Published on July 25 2008 by B. Keith
4.0 out of 5 stars The First Half of The Virgin Queen's Reign
Elizabeth is a beautifully shot film directed by Shekhar Kapur. The cast was a whose who of future stars and past cinema giants. Read more
Published on July 11 2007 by K. Driscoll
4.0 out of 5 stars "I will have one mistress here and no master !"
The beginning of this movie is quite shocking: people being tortured, and shouting. We learn that they are Protestants, and that they don't agree with the religious beliefs of... Read more
Published on Jan 10 2007 by M. B. Alcat
5.0 out of 5 stars sumptuous & stunning
i adored this film,
it is a sumptuous production, the cast list itself is dazzling, cate makes a great queen bess, being the precocious, high-spirited young girl, to the newly... Read more
Published on Feb 18 2006 by paula b
3.0 out of 5 stars Well acted, but distorts the actual events
Elizabeth is a well acted and entertaining movie, with some very well done performances and is visually stunning. Read more
Published on July 16 2004
1.0 out of 5 stars What's wrong with the real story?
Lovely, beautifully acted, blah blah...

But why would the producers/writers take such an EXCITING true story, and change all the facts, and make is so much boring than it... Read more

Published on July 2 2004 by Megan
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