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acoltismypassport

I completely agree with indiastokers: Mikkel Boe Følsgaard gave an astonishingly good performance. Absolutely incredible.

An excellent film by any metric.

9 years 2 months ago

CSSCHNEIDER

At the moment, this is the best of the Foreign Language Nominees I've seen. Terrific performances, world class craft, just splendid.

11 years 3 months ago

An enlightened foreign queen, a childish ineffectual king, attempts at moving a country forward from the Middle Ages stymied by religious hypocrites, and plenty of infidelity. Though it's never been acknowledged, I wouldn't be surprised if the events of A Royal Affair (if not this film's interpretation of them itself) were as much the basis of the Elle Fanning series The Great as the lives of Russia's Catherine, Peter, etc. The "kept queen" story recurs a lot in history, so similarities might just be a coincidence. This page from Danish history is played straight, of course, with tragedy in the offing on a personal and national scale. Alicia Vikander and Mads Mikkelsen are pretty pair, but I was more invested in the politics than the romance. King Christian VII is easy to manipulate and we see how two sides - our heroic reformers and the duplicitous status quo - run the country their way, no matter his wishes. Well made, well acted, but I'd probably be more invested if I were Danish.

1 month 4 weeks ago

torkoal

Fantastic.

5 years 6 months ago

CHR1SBANE

World Class

8 years 7 months ago

vmunda

nice movie!

11 years 3 months ago

TalkingElvish

brilliant film. definitely one of the highlights of 2012 so far.

11 years 6 months ago

Mette

I hope so too! Here's my review: http://limereviews.blogspot.com/2012/06/its-not-just-about-costumes.html

11 years 10 months ago

Romeika

I really hope Mikkel Boe Følsgaard gets an Oscar nomination next year. He steals the show.

12 years ago

indiastokers

It's English title "A Royal Affair" should be added.

A Royal Affair was a real great film, considering it's Danish with a Danish cast it is actually impressive how good it is. The cast delivers great performances, Mads Mikkelsen yet again show off his wonderful acting skills, Alicia Vikander is quite lovely as Caroline Mathilde although she needs to learn how to pronunciate (which is possible, even with a Swedish/English accent), the real pearl of this film is Mikkel Boe Foelsgaard who's captivating Christian the 7th brilliantly with passion and life. I doubt an Academy Award nomination will come his way for this part, but he surely is the future of Danish Cinema.

11 years 8 months ago