mary queen of scots ( 2013 film )
loves of mary queen of scots, the - 1923 silent film about the ill - fated queen .
heart of queen, the - 1940 (also known as
mary queen of scots
and
das herz der königin
) german film about the life and loves of mary queen of scots .
margot robbie has officially signed on to join the cast of mary queen of scots .
mary, queen of scots looks delightfully insane | birth. movies. death .
this short film, one of the first to use camera tricks, depicts the execution of mary, queen of scots .
adelaide kane is mary, queen of scots in the pilot episode of' reign.'
who? : veteran english actress vanessa redgrave played the title role in the 1971 film mary, queen of scots .
mary, queen of scots - 2018 saoirse ronan stars as mary and margo robbie stars as elizabeth i .
remake idea: mary, queen of socks. same film but cast are socks .
mary, queen of scots - 1971 glenda jackson as elizabeth and vanessa redgrave as mary in this tale of rival monarchs .
who? : irish actress saoirse ronan is to appear as the queen in the new film, mary queen of scots. it is expected to be released in 2014 .
anna boleyn - 1920 german made silent film about the second queen of henry viii .
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reviewed at locarno film festival (competing), aug. 13, 2013. (also in toronto film festival — special presentations .) running time: 120 min .
reign a strain of melancholy amid the giddiness: adelaide kane plays the young mary, queen of scots, on thursday night on cw .
friday 16 | 8 | 2013 · 11: 00 · palavideo · sub. english
gunpowder, treason and plot - 2004 tv mini series covering the stories of mary queen of scots and her son james and the gunpowder plot of 1604 .
in the past, american actress scarlett johansson has been linked to a role as the queen of scots .
enjoyed it but being a mary queen of scots fan i didn' t think they kept true to the history of her. soundtrack was also one of the worst i have heard running through a film .
i’m sorry if i sound disrespectful toward “mary, queen of scots. ” it is, after all, based on genuine british history .
the story of mary stuart gets another cinematic workout in mary queen of scots from swiss director thomas imbach, who adapts austrian author stefan zweig ’s biography mary queen of scotland and the isles into an intimate and serious - minded biopic that never quite gets into the head of the protagonist .
virgin queen, the - 1923 black and white silent film. diana manners stars as elizabeth i
thursday 15 | 8 | 2013 · 23: 00 · la sala · sub. english, french
during the sixteenth century, the catholic mary, queen of scots engages in over two decades of religious and political conflict with her cousin, the protestant queen elizabeth i of england, amidst political intrigue in her native land .
switzerland, france · 2013 · dcp · color · 120' · o. v. english / french
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historical dramas can be fun if you approach them in the right spirit, and i enjoyed “mary, queen of scots” a lot more than “anne of the thousand days. ”
australian actress adelaide kane is to play mary, queen of scots in a new us drama. but she is not the first actress to portray the troubled royal .
the film follows the true story of mary stuart ‘s attempt to overthrow her cousin queen elizabeth i, only to find herself condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution .
there are a lot of not very good biographies of mary stuart. john guy’s biography on queen of scots: the true life of mary stuart is probably definitive for scholarly works. but if you’re not up for 600 + pages, try rosalind k. marshall’s much shorter mary queen of scots: truth or lies (kindle edition), which focuses on answering the key questions about this famous but somewhat misunderstood woman .
mary, queen of scots, ranks among the most gripping figures in the romantic imagination, and she’s no stranger to artistic license, including stefan zweig’s 1935 psychological imagining, “maria stuart. ” thomas imbach’s adaptation of the zweig, “mary queen of scots, ” tries hard to capture the character of a woman torn between duty, love and realpolitik, yet [ … ]
over many years film - makers have been drawn to the real - life story of mary stuart, who became queen when she was just six days old .
screenings wednesday 14 | 8 | 2013 · 14: 00 · palexpo (fevi) · sub. english, french
this article was amended on 19 august 2013. an earlier version said that stefan zweig' s book on mary stuart was out of print. this has been corrected .
since 1971 film - makers have tried to emulate the oscar - winning success of mary, queen of scots, starring vanessa redgrave and glenda jackson as the tragic scottish queen and her nemesis, elizabeth i. aborted later attempts include one by hollywood' s actress - producer scarlett johansson and british director alexander mackendrick .
the trailer for mary, queen of scots appeared quietly online yesterday. and no, it' s not for that upcoming cw television series. this film looks insane in the absolute best way possible, which is probably why it was picked as an official selection for this year' s toronto international film festival .
in february 2013, the cw announced its order of a pilot for a tv series based on the life of mary, queen of scots, created by stephanie sengupta and laurie mccarthy, and produced by cbs studios. part of the reason mccarthy chose mary stuart as the subject is because of her life history and multiple husbands, which makes her story
sexier
. the pilot was directed by brad silberling, with sengupta and mccarthy as the writers and executive directors; sengupta left the team in may 2013, leaving laurie mccarthy as the sole showrunner. on february 9, 2013, it was announced that australian actress adelaide kane would be playing the main character .
like biographies about elizabeth i, there are a lot of not very good biographies of mary stuart. john guy’s biography on queen of scots: the true life of mary stuart is probably definitive for scholarly works. but if you’re not up for 600 + pages, try rosalind k. marshall’s much shorter mary queen of scots: truth or lies (kindle edition), which focuses on answering the key questions about this famous but somewhat misunderstood woman. the trial of mary queen of scots: a brief history with documents (bedford series in history & culture) is a short classroom textbook that addresses her trial and execution and offers the primary sources for those events .
dorothy vernon of haddon hall - 1924 mary pickford stars and directs in this early film set in elizabeth' s reign .
white queen, the (tv mini - series) - 2013 series about the women of the wars of the roses (featuring margaret beaufort and elizabeth woodville, among others) based on philippa gregory' s novel .
even as its reception was mixed, “mary queen of scots” provided a telling example of what, if anything, defines a typical locarno movie. carried by camille rutherford’s tender and individualistic performance, the movie finds mary in an uneasy cold war with the queen of england. though some audiences found imbach’s treatment of the material to suffer from an unearned brooding quality, “mary queen of scots” features an appealing reworking of familiar contents: while in many ways a traditional period drama, its time - shifting structure and dreamlike narration manages to critique the very strictures of the genre .
mary, queen of scots doesn' t have a release date as of yet, so if you' re heading to tiff, you can catch it in september. speaking of september, can this movie play fantastic fest ?
although she did apparently remain a virgin all her life, elizabeth was fond of meddling in the sexual lives of others. “mary, queen of scots” is largely concerned with this aspect of her reign, and that no doubt explains why it was made .
' a modern woman, passionate and fragile': camille rutherford as mary in thomas imbach' s film .
when knighthood was in flower - 1922 the second film version of the story of mary tudor and charles brandon. silent and in black and white .
when knighthood was in flower - 1908 the first version of the tale of mary tudor and charles brandon. a silent, black and white short film .
also seen in: hanna, in which she played a teenage assassin opposite elizabeth i actress cate blanchett, and the 2013 movie the host .
reign was announced on the cw' s 2013 autumn line - up on may 10, 2013, placing it in the thursday timeslot following the vampire diaries, its biggest hit in young women demographic. the show had its series premiere on october 17, 2013, in the u. s. in canada, the series airs a day earlier on m3 in simulcast with the cw on ctv two and on! e canada .
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lady jane - 1986 helena bonham carter stars as the tragic queen of nine days .
exclusive: fast - rising british actor jack lowden has been set as the male lead in working title and focus features ’ mary queen of scots. lowden will take on the role of lord darnley opposite saoirse ronan, who is playing the eponymous royal, and margot robbie as her cousin, queen elizabeth i .
the film takes place from november 16, 1560 to february 8, 1587 .
the duration of a film. so long the movie goes on and on when you finish it .
the 22 - year - old is the latest in a long line of film and television stars to portray the queen, who was born at linlithgow palace in 1542 .
mary, queen of scots, ranks among the most gripping figures in the romantic imagination, and she’s no stranger to artistic license, including stefan zweig’s 1935 psychological imagining, “maria stuart. ” thomas imbach ’s adaptation of the zweig, “ mary queen of scots, ” tries hard to capture the character of a woman torn between duty, love and realpolitik, yet the very nature of the monarch’s often inconsistent behavior trips him up — that, plus a weak lead and an ambiguous relationship to the notion of costume drama. if not for mehdi dehbi’s high - wattage charisma, imbach’s “ mary ” would soon be forgotten .
the main international competition contained a mixture of fiction and non - fiction, traditional narratives and experimental film .
queen elizabeth - 1912 sarah bernhardt stars as the queen in this silent movie. also known by the french title les amours de la reine élisabeth
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. what a space it opens…
a short film depicting the execution of mary, queen of the scots. mary is brought to the execution block and made to kneel down with her neck over it. the executioner lifts his axe ready to bring it down. after that frame mary has been replaced by a dummy. the axe comes down and severs the head of the dummy from the body. the executioner picks up the head and shows it around for everyone else to see. one of the first' camera tricks' to be used in a movie .
other actresses to have portrayed mary in films include zarah leander in the heart of a queen (1940) and magda sonja in maria stuart (1927) .
so the film essentially inverts the relationship between the execution of mary stuart and the spanish invasion. the actual invasion was a reaction to mary’s execution, whereas in the film, the execution is part of the scheme to set up the invasion. what the film gets right is the broad sequence of events, showing how the babington plot led to mary’s death, which in turn led to the armada war. with the exception of the detail about the pistol being unloaded as part of a deeper plot, the film’s changes to history are mostly in the way of simplifying the complex details of the plot and making the narrative clear to the audience. in that sense, i think this part of the film works better as history than elizabeth does. but as we shall see next time, there are other problems with etga .
the film fails to come together as anything beyond rudimentary, and that failure is distinctly directorial .
a strong candidate finally arrives thursday night. “reign” is a cw drama about the tumultuous teenage years of mary, queen of scots, which may be all you need to hear. but there’s more! would it surprise you that mary’s ladies in waiting are named greer, kenna, aylee and lola? it sure would have surprised the french court in 1557 .
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so i was on netflix the other night and it suggested that i watch reign, the cw show about mary queen of scots. and i thought, “ok. let’s give it a try. how bad can it be? ” the answer is, it can be pretty darn bad .
mary queen of scots spends her childhood in france and is meant to become queen of france. however, her ailing husband dies and the young widow returns alone to scotland, a country devastated by war. elizabeth has just become queen of england, for mary she is like a twin sister to whom she can open her heart. mary weds again and gives birth to an heir to the thrown. her second husband, lord darnley, proves to be a weakling. when mary finds the love of her life, the earl of bothwell, she has darnley murdered and marries bothwell. horrified by this deed and the blind passion that motivated it, both the nobles and the people of scotland spurn her. to avert a bloody battle, mary is compelled to give up her beloved bothwell. in desperate straits, she turns to elizabeth for help. in response, the queen of england imprisons her. after 19 years spent in a golden cage, mary finds release at last: elizabeth sends her to the block .
mary queen of scots spends her childhood in france and is meant to become also queen of france. however, her ailing husband dies and the young widow returns alone to scotland, a country devastated by war. elizabeth has just become queen of england, for mary she is like a twin sister to whom she can open her heart. mary weds again and gives birth to an heir to the thrown. her second husband, lord darnley, proves to be a weakling. when mary finds the love of her life, the earl of bothwell, she has darnley murdered and marries bothwell. horrified by this deed and the blind passion that motivated it, both the nobles and the people of scotland spurn her. to avert a bloody battle, mary is compelled to give up her beloved bothwell. in desperate straits, she turns to elizabeth for help. in response, the queen of england imprisons her. after 19 years spent in a golden cage, mary finds release at last: elizabeth sends her to the block .
overall, the assembly of the film is rather plain, with only the occasionally dissonant score from russian composer sofia gubaidulina a standout .
also seen in: morvern caller, david cronenberg' s 2012 film cosmopolis and synecdoche, new york .
mary stuart, named queen of scotland when she was six days old, is the last roman catholic ruler of scotland. her cousin elizabeth tudor, queen of england and her arch adversary, has her imprisoned at age 23. nineteen years later, mary is executed, removing the last threat to elizabeth' s throne. the two queens' contrasting personalities make a dramatic counterpoint to history .
mary was queen regnant (meaning she ruled in her own right, and not because she married a king, which makes her super fierce) of scotland from 1542 to 1567, and went on to become queen consort of france when king henry ii arranged for her to marry his son, the dauphin francis. but she was only queen in france for a year - - francis died .
that risk of a generational dumbing - down assumes, of course, that any of those children actually slog their way through this ludicrously written, dully cast, anachronistic blunder, which churns mary queen of scots though the cw gossip girl blender. all poor mary wants to do is marry her handsome prince and rule scotland and france combined, while kicking off her shoes now and then to dance, dance, dance! why is everyone so mean to her ?
marie stuart (which is the french spelling of her name) was born in december of 1542, the only surviving child of king james v of scotland and his french wife mary of guise. the scots and the french had for centuries maintained a traditional political alliance based on mutual hostility to england. starting in the 14 th century, it had been very convenient for france to be allied with scotland, because whenever the english invaded france during the hundred years’ war, the french could count on the scots invading england. for that reason, the two countries maintained what the scots termed ‘the auld alliance’ .
also seen in: 1966' s blow - up, 2007 film atonement and bbc drama call the midwife .
although the film has not yet been given the green light, it is likely to begin production later this year .
mary and her besties. note the distinct lack of sleeves or anything else to suggest the 16th century
mary was put on trial in 1586, based on a bond of association passed by the privy council in 1584. this bond, which mary among many others signed, allowed for the execution of anyone in the line of succession (read: mary) who was aware of any plot to kill the queen, even if they were not actively involved in the plotting. parliament followed this up with an act of association that provided for the execution of anyone who stood to benefit from a plot against the queen. so despite mary’s insistence that she was not subject to english law, and despite the fact (or rather because of the fact) that she was allowed neither legal counsel nor defense witnesses nor access to the evidence against her, mary was found guilty of treason and sentenced to death .
execution of mary stuart, the - 1895 directed by thomas a. edison, this is one of the first movies ever made .
blackadder part ii - 1985 miranda richardson plays a delightfully demented queen elizabeth i in this comedy series .
the 26 - year - old actress is set to portray england’s queen elizabeth, according to variety .
i didn' t find this film as bad as everyone had made out, but i would caution that those looking for a cookie cutter version of mary' s story will need to reconsider as you really ...
there were many who believed mary to be the rightful heir to the english throne. when henry viii' s eldest daughter mary i (so many marys !) died, the crown went to the next heir in the line of succession: elizabeth i, her sister. but there were several catholics who believed elizabeth to be illegitimate (she was the daughter of henry viii and anne boleyn, the latter of whom was labeled a traitor and beheaded, with elizabeth' s birth declared illegitimate) and mary, queen of scots, to be the rightful heir as the eldest daughter of henry viii' s eldest sister .
in one of the film’s nicest touches, the catholic queen of scotland constantly writes letters to her cousin and rival, the protestant elizabeth i of england, in which she confesses her fears and hopes. the letters can be heard in voice - over and the figure of elizabeth becomes an almost spectral presence that haunts mary, as the english queen’s ambassadors bring along a new painted portrait of their ruler with every reply they convey (they never met in real life). mary’s favorite courtier, the puppeteer rizzio (mehdi dehbi, giving the film’s standout performance), also uses dolls of the two rival queens for his improvised plays, literally turning the complicated political games into child’s play (and bringing those who' ve forgotten their high school history lessons quickly up to speed) .
seven seas to calais - 1962 italian film with the full cast of elizabethan characters. rod taylor as sir francis drake, irene worth as elizabeth i .
marie’s father died of a fever less than a week after marie was born, and as his only legitimate child, she then became queen. henry viii of england, seeing an opportunity to break the auld alliance, proposed that marie wed his son edward when she turned six. the scottish regent initially accepted the offer, but by july of 1543, the deal had broken down and the scots renewed the auld alliance. in response, henry’s forces invaded scotland, hoping to seize the young queen. this invasion, which was nicknamed the ‘rough wooing’, failed, but made clear to the scots that it was quite risky for them to keep mary where the english might grab her .
perhaps the biggest change that the film makes, however, comes immediately after the execution. philip ii of spain declares war on england, and walsingham suddenly realizes that philip was behind the whole plot in the first place. , because the spanish king has been reading mary’s correspondence. babington’s gun was unloaded so that elizabeth would survive, execute mary and give philip the justification to invade. walsingham begs the queen’s forgiveness for misunderstanding the whole situation, and elizabeth admits that she has erred in executing mary .
the film, which had its world premiere on home turf at the locarno film festival, will be released in november in germany and switzerland and will also be shown in toronto as a special presentation. it should especially appeal to history channel - type broadcasters .
crowned the queen of scotland before she was a year old, mary added to that pedigree when her first husband became france’s king and she became queen consort in 1559. despite that auspicious start, things didn’t go well from there. she later married her first cousin, lord darnley, a bad match that ended with his murder .
nine days a queen - 1936 (also known as
tudor rose
and
lady jane grey
) an early telling of the tale of jane grey, that begins with the death of henry viii .
a queen who lost three kingdoms. a wife who lost three husbands. a woman who lost her head .
ioana ruxandra bratosin played the queen as a young girl and clemence posey as the royal in her adult life .
kane auditioned when she was filming a recurring role on the third season of mtv tv series teen wolf. when kane got the part, the teen wolf writers wrote her character leaving the series. kane is part scottish on her mother' s side, and did research on the historical mary stuart in preparing for the role. torrance coombs was announced as having been cast as sebastian, one of the leading characters, in march 2013. sebastian is an original character created for the show, so coombs didn' t have as much research in preparation for the role, though he faced the challenge of changing his performance from that in the tudors, another historical tv series he' d been involved in. alan van sprang, who was cast as henry ii of france, modeled his performance after bill clinton. in november 2013, amy brenneman was announced as having been cast as mary stuart' s mother, mary de guise, a role that initially went to brenneman' s private practice co - star kate walsh, who was unable to commit due to conflicting filming commitments. toby regbo was cast as dauphin francis in march 2013 .
apparently mary, queen of scots is too boring for series creator laurie mccarthy, so she constructs a ridiculous love triangle around young, dumb mary and hires an actress who thinks teenage girls aren' t into, you know, being educated. that' s why they' ll accept a wafer thin slice of sugary stupidity like' reign' and the united states can continue its precipitous slide down the intelligence rankings of first world countries. well, that' s what i got out of the pilot, anyway. oh, and nostradamus is a hunk. twitter
from swiss director thomas imbach (whom i had never heard of, but now immediately want to watch his other films), the film takes a dark and unsettling look at the life of mary stuart, aka mary, queen of scots. i am so in love with this utterly bonkers trailer, with the large title cards proclaiming the film' s tagline :
a queen who lost three kingdoms. a wife who lost three husbands. a woman who lost her head .
by the time it gets to that last line about losing her head, my fist was pumping. the trailer calls to mind the work of lars von trier, but there' s also something in the tone and composition that reminds me of the trailer for salo. it' s creepy and kind of off - putting, the way people just quietly glare toward the camera, and how the lead actress, camille rutherford, looks like a woman who has lost her damn mind. i look forward to having a weirdo double feature of this and blue jasmine .
glenda jackson, another well - known actress of stage and screen, played mary' s cousin, elizabeth i .
a biography of the doomed monarch whose devotion to her cousin elizabeth i, and her duty to her country left her executed. through evocative visuals, the film examines her return to scotland, the exhausting struggles between catholics and protestants, her marriage to lord darnley, and her relationship with the earl of bothwell. thomas imbach s film presents a queen who lost three kingdoms, a wife who lost three husbands, and ultimately, a woman who lost her head .
ah, but reign, the cw' s newest
historical
drama, is so relentlessly bad, so passionately inept, that in july the network felt compelled to defend to critics its right to take the story of mary, queen of scots, and turn it into something immune to facts (because facts would make it boring to teenage girls) and maintain that interpreting history as nonsensical teen pabulum was the god - given right of creator and executive producer laurie mccarthy .
a biography of the doomed monarch whose devotion to her cousin elizabeth i, and her duty to her country left her executed. through evocative visuals, the film examines her return to scotland, the exhausting struggles between catholics and protestants, her marriage to lord darnley, and her relationship with the earl of bothwell. thomas imbach' s film presents a queen who lost three kingdoms, a wife who lost three husbands, and ultimately, a woman who lost her head .
when mary finally discovers the joys of intercourse with the man who would become her third spouse, the earl of bothwell (sean biggerstaff, too puny to be credible as a queen’s sex god), she suddenly becomes a lioness willing to defy anyone that comes near her and a woman who’s more than ready to defend her right to marry him (and, supposedly, have more of that magnificent sex, for once a narrative necessity the film rather oddly shies away from). but this kind of passion or clearly readable psychology that translates into action is absent for most of the rest of the film, including, quite crucially, on the battlefield in the last reel (otherwise modestly but effectively staged) .
shakespeare in love - 1998 joseph fiennes stars as the bard himself. dame judi dench plays the older queen elizabeth i .
virigin queen, the (tv mini - series) - 2005 bbc drama with anne - marie duff as elizabeth i .
so you might understand why mary may have been a little crazy. the english throne was a point of contention between mary and elizabeth i, and it didn' t end well, to say the least .
stage director josie rourke is helming the film which is penned by house of cards creator beau willimon and based on the 2004 biography by john guy, the true life of mary stuart. working title’s tim bevan and eric fellner, and debra hayward are producing. shooting is understood to be starting this summer .
two uk productions are still at early stages, but a swiss film - maker has beaten them to it with a sympathetic psychological portrait set to be an art - house hit. zurich - based thomas imbach has directed, produced and co - written the film, with camille rutherford playing mary, which has been singled out for this season' s festivals at locarno and toronto .
as part of a maiden public film screening at the salon indien, on december 28, in paris, auguste lumière pivots the centre of attention around his baby daughter, as he tries to feed her from a spoon .
the historical babington plot involved a catholic effort to assassinate elizabeth and replace her on the throne with her catholic cousin mary i of scotland, who had been captured and held in genteel confinement in england for 19 years. walsingham understood that mary was the focus of numerous plots, since as elizabeth’s closest living relative she was naturally a factor in catholic plots to remove elizabeth. her letters show that mary was extremely well - informed about multiple conspiracies, but elizabeth was deeply reluctant to take action against mary. since mary was a crowned queen in her own right, executing her would provide precedent for executing elizabeth, and it would undermine the mystique that elizabeth felt was essential to her rule. walsingham tried without success to get his queen to take decisive action about her cousin .
private lives of elizabeth and essex, the - 1939 bette davis plays elizabeth i and errol flynn is the dashing earl of essex. also known as
elizabeth and essex
and
elizabeth the queen
like elizabeth, etga intertwines the story of elizabeth i’s love life (or lack thereof) with a story about a catholic plot to depose her and walsingham’s efforts to protect her. in fact, it actually recycles part of the first film’s plot. elizabeth features a plot against the queen that is a composite of the actual ridolfi and babington plots, with the jesuit john ballard featuring as the assassin. etga shows us the babington plot somewhat more accurately, but since john ballard was already killed in the first film, they decided to rename the jesuit orchestrater of the plot robert reston .
henry viii and his six wives - 1973 a film version of the bbc television series. keith michell stars again as henry, but the wives' actresses are different from the television series .
the script appropriately makes mary’s relationship with elizabeth a key element, with the scottish queen refusing to cede any ground, though clearly her insecurities about her fellow sovereign to the south betray such confidence. having mary speak in the first person via unsent letters addressed to elizabeth reps a clever way of laying bare her emotional state and avoids the stolid tendencies of other historical pics, but as written here, the missives provide factual explanations and reveal a few anxieties without shining much light on mary’s choices .
young bess - 1953 jean simmons plays the teenage princess elizabeth. stewart grainger is thomas seymour and deborah kerr as queen katherine parr .
forsyth said mary' s story shows human beings at their best and worst. the exhibition presents mary as enigmatic, leaving open whether she was betrayed or was an adulteress with her husband' s blood on her hands .
we wanted to re - establish her as a vital, living queen ,
said forsyth .
in the same section featuring “manakamana, ” a movie exclusively focused on characters riding back and forth in a cable car over the course of two hours, the programmers included “pays barbare, ” an italian compilation of archival footage from the italo - ethiopian war, in addition to korean director hong sang - soo’s blithe dramedy “our sunhi. ” then there’s golden leopard winner “the story of my death, ” catalan director albert serra’s provocative treatment of the casanova story (which included a cameo by dracula) wasn’t the only anti - biopic in the section; it also contained “mary queen of scots, ” an elegant period drama from swiss director thomas imbach .
swiss director thomas imbach tackles the story of mary stuart in a small - scale and serious biopic, headlined by camille rutherford and mehdi dehbi .
this movie was so good! i went into it expecting a sad, meandering, cerebral period drama, and that' s exactly what i got. it focuses on mary' s childhood up to her imprisonment, with a few flash - forwards to her execution. the 20 - odd years of her actual imprisonment aren' t included. the film makes the viewer feel rather lonely. written and acted impeccably, and the scenery and costumes are amazing. it rather reminds me at times of both the sullen, dreamy, rainy 2011
wuthering heights
film; or the trance - like sunny
picnic at hanging rock
. this film is definitely a new favorite .
etga follows the basic facts of the babington plot, but it does make a few key changes. as noted, ballard was renamed so as not to conflict with the first movie. the film lays out the messages being smuggled to mary in beer barrels and walsingham’s monitoring of the plot, although how he discovers the plot is wrong. in the film, he simply arrests some catholics who give him the lead he needs; also his (i think fictitious) brother william is a catholic entangled in the plot .
the general feel – the mix of water and hills, forest and mountains – is very good: the forests are a realistic blend of scots pine and birch. but it only reflects the highlands. that ties in with the view peddled abroad since queen victoria: that of a bare, rugged land, inhabited by wild men in kilts. it' s also highly unlikely there were bears in medieval times: we think they became extinct in scotland in the prehistoric period .
showrunner mccarthy describes the show as deliberately taking liberties with history, and that it' s more
entertainment
than history, while actress anna popplewell refers to the show as
fantasy history
, exploring the characters in hypothetical situations. actress megan follows describes the show as
24 for the pre - renaissance
, as they may extend historical events over a longer period of time. mccarthy adds that the show is designed to be interesting to a contemporary audience, so viewers who aren' t familiar with history will be able to watch and relate to the characters. among the creative choices is the use of modern music in the show soundtrack, and its costumes. the show' s costumes are designed by meredith markworth - pollack, who worked on the cw' s other shows hart of dixie and gossip girl, who created different looks for mary and her ladies, each to complement their differing personalities. the ladies: lola, kenna, greer, and aylee, are loosely based on mary beaton, mary seton, mary fleming, and mary livingston who were ladies - in - waiting to mary, queen of scots .
darnley turns out to be a scheming fanatic intent on preventing any protestant inroads. following his early death, quickly passed over, mary unwisely falls for bothwell, who becomes husband no. 3; in reality, they were not married by john knox (tony curran) as the film suggests, one of many historical inaccuracies that add nothing in terms of plot or atmosphere. it’s hardly giving away the game to state that the pic ends just before mary’s arrest .
upon examination, this plot doesn’t work. if elizabeth had been assassinated, mary would have automatically become queen, and there would have been no need for a spanish invasion. executing mary was the last thing philip wanted to happen, because it meant that there was no catholic heir to the throne (the new heir, mary’s son james, having been raised as a protestant), which would make controlling england after the conquest a bigger problem, since there is no catholic heir to put on the throne as a spanish puppet (although as the widower of elizabeth’s older sister mary i, philip had his own very weak claim). had philip simply been waiting for an excuse, mary’s imprisonment would probably have been enough on its own. in actuality, the execution of mary forced philip to take action when he was probably reluctant to do so .
still, it cherishes a soap - opera approach to history, condensing several decades of pretty complicated diplomacy into an account of mary’s three marriages, her second husband’s bisexuality, elizabeth’s quirky affair with her master of horses, and so on .
mary went on to marry her first cousin, lord darnley, who wanted to reign as co - sovereign, but mary refused and started plotting divorce. darnley was killed in an explosion, and many believed that mary and her third husband, lord bothwell, were to blame for darnley' s death. it' s also been said that before mary married bothwell, he and his men abducted and raped her .
with the help of a magic cauldron, mephistopheles conjures up a variety of supernatural characters .
( switzerland - france) a pathe (in switzerland) release of a pathe film presentation of an okofilm, srf swiss radio and television, srg ssr, arte, bachim film, takafilm, sciapode production. (international sales: okofilm, zurich .) produced by andrea staka, thomas imbach. co - producers, urs fitze, stefan hofmann, sven waelti, eric morfaux. executive producers, emilie blezat, sibylle sarah imbach .
elizabeth the queen - 1968 television play from 1968 based on the maxwell anderson play. judith anderson is elizabeth i, and charlton heston is essex .
mary’s short marriage to the young french dauphin, and then king, francois ii (sylvain levitte, appropriately sickly), in 1558, is done away with in a quick sequence that forms something of a prolog to the frenchified queen’s return to scotland, where she settles after her husband’s untimely demise .
reign opens in 1557, with mary stuart (adelaide kane) 15 years old and living at a french convent. she and the young nuns play soccer until it’s time to have lunch outdoors. one of the nuns begins bleeding out of her mouth and ears and drops dead in her porridge; it’s revealed that she was mary’s food taster, and so clearly there is a plot afoot to poison mary. the mother superior decides that it’s time to send mary back to the french royal court because the convent is unsafe .
when she quickly married the man suspected of orchestrating the killing, an uprising against the couple resulted in her being imprisoned in loch leven castle. forced to abdicate her throne to her year - old son, she failed in an attempt to wrest back the throne and fled for the protection of her cousin, england’s queen elizabeth 1. mary had once claimed to be the rightful queen of england, a view embraced by catholics. perceived as a threat by her cousin, she was confined and ultimately executed for complicity in a plot to assassinate elizabeth .
tower of london, the - 1939 basil rathbone as richard iii. (actually, this is sort of outside of the time period, but the character of henry tudor is included )
guy’s book has been said to dispel the popular image of mary as a romantic leading lady who achieved her ends through feminine wiles, and establishes her as the intellectual and political equal of elizabeth i .
mary is all set to marry her betrothed, that dashing, bestubbled stud muffin prince francis (toby regbo). francis, however, has other ideas. so do his scheming mother, queen catherine (megan follows, one of the few members of the cast who escapes with her reputation unscathed) and his dangerously handsome half - brother bash (torrance coombs) .
imbach said his film stuck as closely to the facts as possible :
a lot of [ her life ] is still controversial. was she involved in the murder of her husband? historians still have their battles on this. as a spectator, you can make your choices .
( there have been several film versions of richard iii. i' ve included the best known. henry vii makes an appearance, so i guess it counts as a tudor movie! see also
looking for richard, above
)
a whistle stop tour through the life of mary if know nothing about her. but no stopping to find out about anyone else and all the detail is missing .
who? : nottingham - born samantha morton played mary in the 2007 movie opposite cate blanchett' s elizabeth i .
the sound has been found in the form of an old edisonian recording cylinder. the cylinder was repaired, then walter murch ace mpse synced the film to the correct music in (i believe) 2002. total running time is approximately 17 seconds .
the team of director charles jarrott and producer hall wallis, fresh from their triumph over “anne of the thousand days, ” needed to look no further than the rivalry between mary and elizabeth for their next historical soap opera .
crowning glories? : her appearance in atonement - which starred another screen mary, vanessa redgrave - saw her become one of the youngest people to be nominated for an oscar .
delicately featured french actress camille rutherford (low life) stars as the titular queen but her delivery, in french and english, is often stilted and she struggles to illuminate the complexity of her character in the way zweig, partly inspired by the writings of his fellow viennese contemporary, sigmund freud, did. the young actress is not aided by a middling screenplay, by imbach and andrea staka (who also produced) and co - writer eduard habsburg, which favors historical chronology over psychological insight - - though the writers do have the good sense to end the film before mary’s famous head’s chopped off .
other forthcoming films include one by eric fellner and tim bevan, the team behind hits including notting hill. irish actress saorsie ronan is reportedly cast in the title role. the production will be directed by oscar - winning danish film - maker susanne bier. the co - scriptwriter, michael hirst, collaborated on the oscar - winning elizabeth, starring cate blanchett as the virgin queen .
spellbinding film - making, fused with histrionic, ominous photography and music, set in seasick pantomime. rutherford is masterclass in a star - making turn, and imbach imbued blocking like a theater pro. a
as the plot developed, it came to focus around a wealthy catholic named anthony babington, who was in what he thought was secret coded communication with mary via those beer barrels, never realizing that gifford and another member of the plot were letting walsingham decode and read the letters. the jesuit priest john ballard was working to gain spanish agreement to launch an invasion on england in mary’s name, while babington was being maneuvered to win mary’s assent to a scheme in which babington was to assassinate elizabeth, mary would be rescued from confinement, and then placed on the throne. mary eventually sent babington a letter laying out what she saw as necessary for any plot to rescue her from captivity. this letter on its own was probably enough to implicate mary in the whole plot, but one of the spies copied it and added a postscript in which mary appeared to agree to the effort to kill elizabeth. that was enough to let walsingham arrest ballard and babington, who were subsequently executed .
lowden, who won an olivier award for 2013’s ghosts, broke into features with yann demange’s ’71 and is next up in christopher nolan’s war epic, dunkirk, from warner bros. he is also starring in the biopic of the smiths’ frontman, morrissey, england is mine, and recently wrapped the stephen merchant - helmed feature fighting with my family. in 2016, he played nikolai rostov in the bbc / weinstein co adaptation of war & peace. he’s repped by uta and conway van gelder grant in the uk .
henry viii of england discards one wife, katharine of aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful anne boleyn.
mary queen of scots is a 2013 swiss period drama directed by thomas imbach . it is his first film in english and french language starring the bilingual french actress camille rutherford . the film portrays the inner life of mary , the queen of scotland . the film is based on austrian novelist stefan zweig 's 1935 biography , mary stuart , a long-term bestseller in germany and france but out of print in the uk and the us for decades until 2010 . the film was first screened at the 2013 international film festival locarno and was later shown at the 2013 toronto international film festival . 
mary queen of scots is a 2013 swiss period drama directed by thomas imbach. it is his first film in english and french language starring the bilingual french actress camille rutherford. the film portrays the inner life of mary, the queen of scotland. the film is based on austrian novelist stefan zweig's 1935 biography, mary stuart, a long-term bestseller in germany and france but out of print in the uk and the us for decades until 2010. the film was first screened at the 2013 international film festival locarno and was later shown at the 2013 toronto international film festival.
mary queen of scots is a 2013 swiss period drama directed by thomas imbach. it is his first film in english and french language starring the bilingual french actress camille rutherford. the film portrays the inner life of mary, the queen of scotland. the film is based on austrian novelist stefan zweig's 1935 biography, mary stuart, a long-term bestseller in germany and france but out of print in the uk and the us for decades until 2010. the film was first screened at the 2013 international film festival locarno and was later shown at the 2013 toronto international film festival.