Barbara Barak

This is a mean-spirited movie that continually portrays the cruelest, most devious and depraved aspects of human nature, and historical accuracy be damned. There’s no evidence that Queen Anne was a lesbian or a weak psychological mess, in fact she did much in her short reign to help her country, and this in spite of much illness. Where was mention of her husband whom she valued? Where is the amusing moments let alone the humor? A successful farce needs to project some empathy to engage an audience. Are we supposed to enjoy the unremittingly mean drama and boring sex made worse by a tortuous two tone interval loudly and badly played to an extreme volume for no discernible purpose? It drove me out of the theater. I’m so glad that I missed the episode of pelting a heavy man with food, and an evidently totally fictional and meaningless ending.