Princess Diana she only appears in topical films

"When you understand more your people, perhaps it is time to pass the torch to the next generation", asks Elizabeth II during a walk with the Queen Mother. It strongly discourages the commit the irreparable. "All of this, it is the fault of this idiot of Blair with his smile of Chester County chatdu", replied the popular widow of George VI, comparing the British Prime Minister to the cat in "Alice in Wonderland country."

This scene of "the queen" happens just after the death of Princess Diana in a car accident in Paris, August 31, 1997. The Royal family then lived in his summer residence of Balmoral, Scotland. Faithful to the old Victorian principles, it will land in the silence after the tragedy. Are there more great fault of taste than the expression of feelings "No explain, no. complain." The Windsor failed to see the show state nor democracy of opinion. They are from another era, unable to understand the shock wave caused by the tragic death of the Princess of the people. " The term is Tony Blair, the new and dashing Labour Prime Minister. "Feels it" the people, which he has to collect the votes after 17 years of Conservative Government, he masters TV and feeds on polls. Notice, he knows nothing of the importance of the monarchy in the cohesion of the United Kingdom: it will be the saviour of the Crown.

Empathy with the Crown

"The Queen", the film bright intelligence of Stephen Frears ("My Beautiful Laundrette", "Sammie and Rosie to send in the air", "Les Liaisons dangereuses"...), tells this terrible first week of September 1997 where the British, heated to white by the tabloids, asking: "is there a heart that beats in the Windsor". The English filmmaker, in obvious empathy with the Crown ("the Queen lives in my conscience for sixty years, so long as my wife or anyone else", said the Director, age of sixty-five years), not failing in its description of the two worlds. On the one hand the monarchy English, timeless, safe of his good right, going about their business away from the commotion between des landes Scottish and Buckingham Palace. On the other, the rest of the world, "populus britannicus" in mind, the reality show and the injunction of everything said and all show. Stephen Frears, filmmaker of the complexity of human beings and human relations, stressed the antagonism of these two worlds by filming the Royal family in 35 mm. The image is more polished, more aesthetic than in scenes, touring in 16 mm, more dynamic and more "real", where is Tony Blair. Princess Diana, she only appears in topical films.

Prodigious Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren (award in Venice) is prodigious in the role of Elizabeth II. The similarity between the two women is so troubling that MI5 should use the actress as a lining of the Queen. James Cromwell (a name to fade a Windsor) is less credible, physically, the features of the Duke of Edinburgh. It looks more like the General de Gaulle during the speech of Bayeux. But he plays him also to perfection, the personality, any morgue, Saxe-Coburg, guarantor of the currency of conservatism reflects: "If it's not necessary to change, it's necessary not to change. Michael Sheen is, also, sublime, the features of the spirited Tony Blair: left and curly, permanent rictus displayed a smile, obsessed with polls and his image, to listen to his wife, Cherie, the Mrs. Sans-Gêne of 10, Downing Street. And there is something in retrospect pathetic to see the Prime Minister, now at the bottom of opinion polls and driven to the door by his "friend" Gordon Brown, give advice to the Queen to resist wear and tear of time. What to think, almost ten years after, Elizabeth II