Le Discours d'un roi - Reviews

...a superior historical drama and a powerful personal one.

...it’s a skewed, awards-ready version of history, but one polished to a fine, satisfying shine.

...proves there's fizzing life in old-school British period dramas – it's acted and directed with such sweep, verve, darting lightness.

Think the blazing joys of Chariots Of Fire where the race is to the end of a sentence. Can it be that the British are coming?

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...a superior historical drama and a powerful personal one.

Think the blazing joys of Chariots Of Fire where the race is to the end of a sentence. Can it be that the British are coming?

...a knowing, sincere, and beautifully shot film that, unlike Frears' Queen, takes on the meatiest slabs of dark history and renders these curtsy-courting Balmoralians as something other than figureheads.

...proves there's fizzing life in old-school British period dramas – it's acted and directed with such sweep, verve, darting lightness.

Not just one of the most entertaining British films in years, but one of the most intriguing, too.

...it’s a skewed, awards-ready version of history, but one polished to a fine, satisfying shine.

...ett finstämt drama...