RAAC Film Series
“THE YOUNG VICTORIA”
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“The Young Victoria” - 2009 |
On September 3 at 8:00 p.m., RAAC Movies presents “The Young Victoria,” rated PG, 105 minutes runtime. RAAC brings films to the Theatre on Gay Street, Washington, Virginia, on occasional Fridays for the Fall, Winter, and Spring seasons.
Synopsis: This award-winning film is based on the early reign of England's Queen Victoria, and her romance and subsequent marriage to Prince Albert amidst court intrigue.
The film stars Emily Blunt, Mark Strong, Jesper Christensen, Rupert Friend, and Jim Broadbent. It is directed by Jean-Marc Vallee.
Review: Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly writes, “ . . . The Young Victoria traces its heroine’s early years by embracing a radical concept: It sticks close to historical fact, and thereby presents the choices faced by a naive young queen not as a confectionary costume melodrama but as the nuanced political passion play it well may have been . . . At first, Victoria trusts too much; then, after marrying Albert, she trusts too little. She’s an English-monarch Goldilocks, trying to figure out how much manipulation is just right. The Young Victoria has a subtler flow than you might expect, and at times it’s calmer than you may like. Director Jean-Marc Vallée's images have a creamy stateliness, but this is no gilded princess fantasy — it’s the story of a budding ruler who learns to control her surroundings, and Blunt makes that journey at once authentic and relevant. Victoria, a leader who changed the world, becomes any young woman brave enough to seize her moment.”
Fall 2010 Film Schedule
September 3. “The Young Victoria”
October 1. “City Island”
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