Lady Jane (1986)
Directed by Tervor
Nunn this historical drama stars Helena Bonham Carter, Cary Elwes and
Patrick Stewart. As the young king Edward VI faces a premature death
his advisers scheme to put a young girl on the throne to be their
puppet.
As with many
historical pieces this film matches fact with a large amount of
fantasy which sadly undermines the content of the film somewhat. The
tale of Lady Jane is pretty interesting in being a young girl used as
a pawn but the addition of too much fiction waters down the
possibility of getting to grips with the real Jane and events of her
9 day reign. One negative element of the execution of the film is
that some of the dialogue does suffer from a fair amount of echo and
the sound track is over bearing at times.
2/5
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