Monday 2 July 2012

A Royal Affair


(In Danish with English sub-titles)

In the late eighteenth century an English Princess marries the King of Denmark only to find herself in a largely loveless arranged marriage. In time she enters into an affair with the King's physician. This odd threesome introduces reforms to a country which then had been a backwater in Europe.

'A Royal Affair' is based on historical fact and for that reason maintained my interest. It is well acted and nicely photographed but a trifle overlong.

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