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...When it's grey outside, it's easy to feel the blahs--some people seem to react quite strongly," says Repetto...
...Lady Jane Grey, age 15, was crowned Queen of England. Her reign lasted an inglorious nine days. She and her adolescent consort Guildford Dudley were beheaded, martyrs to a failed conspiracy by Protestants to prevent restoration of a Catholic monarchy. The story of Jane and Guildford, as told by Screenwriter David Edgar and Director Trevor Nunn (the Nicholas Nickleby team), has the superficial air of the standard movie history lesson: courtiers elegantly whispering in drafty castle corridors. But they have not forgotten that their central figures, nicely played by Helena Bonham Carter and Cary Elwes, are adolescents, full...
...February 12th, 1554, 16-year-old Lady Jane Grey and her husband, 19-year-old Lord Guilford Dudley were executed for treason at the Tower of London. Innocent pawns in a plot engineered by the influential Duke of Northumberland to alter the plan of royal succession as drawn up by the late King Henry VIII, the two young nobles were imprisoned by the allegedly rightful heir Queen Mary after a nine-day period during which Jane ruled England as Queen...
FIVE DAYS SHORT of the 432nd anniversary of Lady Jane Grey's death Paramount Pictures begins its limited release of Lady Jane, a two and a half-hour historical epic featuring a slightly embellished version of the events surrounding the girl-queen's life and death. Brimming with Renaissance cantatas sung by an invisible chorus, elegantly outfitted noble lords and ladies, broad, sweeping shots of the glorious English countryside, meticulously reconstructed regal interiors and a heavy dose of iconographical pageantry, Lady Jane would seem more at home in the context of such decade-old films...
Light comedy and idyllic romance give way to more substantial drama as the film moves on to chronicle the political machinations that resulted in Jane Grey Dudley's briefly becoming Queen of England. This is perhaps the least satisfying portion of the film, largely because we know that her abrupt rise to power will soon be followed by an equally abrupt decline from...