A National Theatre Live screening at the Nova. Helen Mirren as Elizabeth II, in a non-chronological series of imagined private conversations with eight of her 12 Prime Ministers, including her first (Churchill) and most recent and current (Cameron), impressively - from an actorly point of view - spanning some 61 years. (The others being Anthony Eden, Harold Wilson, James Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Gordon Brown. It's rather (and necessarily) broad in its characterisations (veering close to caricature), and to be honest at times in the acting (the cast is great, but the close-up rendition on screen of what is, after all, stage acting, is sometimes unkind given the important differences between screen and stage) - but interesting and enjoyable, and sympathetic to all of the figures it presents, most notably the Queen herself.
(w/ Sunny)
(w/ Sunny)
