Other Boleyn Girl
Luty 28th, 2008 11:54
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Starring: Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana, Benedict Cumberba… Review: Guys may assume the film version of Philippa Gregory’s chick-lit bestseller about two Boleyn sisters who bed Henry VIII as a way to secure the fortune of their pimp family is a form of dude torture. They’re wrong. And not because first-time director Justin Chadwick does a consummate job of bringing Peter Morgan’s script to cinematic life ? he doesn’t. The film moves in frustrating herks and jerks. What works is the combustible teaming of Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson, who give the Boleyn hotties a tough core of intelligence and wit, swinging the film’s sixteenth-century protofeminist issues handily into this one. Johansson plays it subtle-sultry as Mary, who bears Henry (Eric Bana) two bastard children but can’t get him to divorce his wife. It’s Portman’s more calculatin… Rating: 2 Stars |