Elizabeth

Last night we watched Elizabeth, with Cate Blanchett. (I think there is another recent Elizabeth I movie that I haven't seen yet.)

I always like history flicks, even if the history isn't perfectly accurate--what with revisionist history, whoever knows anyway? In any case, I don't know English history well enough to complain.

Blanchett was wonderful as the Virgin Queen--we always wonder if she really was, don't we. She played her as an intelligent, wily, ruler and also as a real woman who could be jealous and vindictive.


I don't think everyone would really enjoy this film. The people and their costumes were beautiful, but it was a bit slow moving. I knew that the Spanish Armada would be decimated by a storm. I suppose the movie would be more of a thriller if you didn't know that before watching.