I was mostly frustrated with the recent movie with Cate Blanchett starring the virgin queen, the most popular of all British monarchs. Before that, I saw many actresses playing it, but many times like the icon it used to be. The Helen Mirren's acting is personal, balanced and believable. Far better than "Chief of command" , the recent US TV series with a president woman . One of the great movies depicting that historical time, pointed out the other queen, Mary of the Scots, played by the fabulous Vanessa Redgrave. But of Elisabeth I, no great movie...until this TV show. As I am French (nobody's perfect), I found hard not to be able to watch this movie, and ordered it from the web. I truly hope that my fellow citizens will be able to watch it widely one day. But may be they are not as fond of British history as I am.The French movie depicting Queen Margot's life, during the same historical time, was a huge success too. Whatever the story, everybody loves great, smooth, so personal historical movies. God save good movies.
Review of Elizabeth I
