- Tuesday, April 16, 2024
By: Sarwar Alam
Grouchy, greedy and constipated: nobody could accuse Stephen Frears of kowtowing with his portrayal of Queen Victoria in his new film Victoria & Abdul, which premiered in Venice on Sunday. The director, who won a string of awards for The Queen, his 2006 depiction of Queen Elizabeth II in turmoil at the time of Princess Diana’s death, returns to royal questions in a tale of the current British monarch’s great, great grandmother’s friendship with a young Indian Muslim, Abdul Karim, in the final years of her long reign. Set at a time when the British Empire was at its peak…
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