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As the movie tells it, she was a sylvan, redheaded princess (Cate Blanchett) given to gamboling with her fella (Joseph Fiennes) between periods of internment in the Tower of London on charges of conspiring to overthrow her half-sister, the heatedly Catholic Queen Mary (Kathy Burke).
That "modern" note is largely absent from Parker's adaptation, in which Gertrude is the soulful center and Blanchett's performance is radiant in its forthrightness.
With all due respect to Blanchett, Bette Davis, and Glenda Jackson, my favorite Elizabeth I remains Miranda Richardson's capricious, baby-talking psychopath on the BBC comedy Blackadder II . (Casting about for a new lord high executioner, she mews to Rowan Atkinson, "There are thousands of Catholics simply dying to have their heads sneaked off --and there's no one to organize it."
Some love the "darkly sumptuous, hypnotically complex" plotting (Richard Schickel, Time ); others call the film "Masterpiece Theater for the MTV generation," riddled with glaring historical inaccuracies (Rod Dreher, the New York Post ). Two things draw praise from all: 1) The spectacular art direction; 2) Cate Blanchett's performance as a feminist Virgin Queen.
) But Blanchett comes in a close second, pulling off the transition from hapless young woman to coolly ruthless monarch with uncommon subtlety.