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Almost ten years on from his first iteration, director Shekar Kapur and star Cate Blanchett revisit the Virgin Queen for this sumptuously mounted but indiscriminately-told period epic, which sees Elizabeth I battle the invading Spanish for control of
Almost ten years on from his first iteration, director Shekar Kapur and star Cate Blanchett revisit the Virgin Queen for this sumptuously mounted but indiscriminately-told period epic, which sees Elizabeth I battle the invading Spanish for control of her realm.
opens in 1585 as Roman Catholic Spain, personified by the tottering Philip II (Jordi Molla), constructs a vast fleet of warships towage war on Protestant England. Philip hopes to make his daughter, the ...
