The Errant Æsthete

Armond White of the New York Press calls The Other Boleyn Girl, directed by Justin Chadwick “a Tudor drama for the teen market—the next film on the Juno syllabus.

“The Other Boleyn Girl’s tarting-up of British history pales next to its travesty of movie history. This story has been told several times before: Anne of the Thousand Days clarified Henry and Anne’s sexual gamesmanship, A Man for All Seasons gave lucid, intellectual suspense to Henry breaking away from the Pope to establish the Church of England—and chopping off heads to do so. Those films had more gravitas plus sumptuous histrionics. Portman, Johansson and Bana may be hot, but they can’t light a match next to the emotional fireworks of Richard Burton, Genevieve Bujold, Paul Scofield, Vanessa Redgrave and Robert Shaw—images of pride, sex, foolishness, vanity and heroism that still burn in the memory.”

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