90 mins |
Rated
EX
Directed by Roger Michell
Elizabeth is an archive-based documentary film about the Queen. A celebration. A truly cinematic mystery-tour up and down the decades: poetic, funny, disobedient, ungovernable, affectionate, inappropriate, mischievous, in awe. Funny. Moving. Different. The Queen as never before.
WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING:
"Couched in fondness and gentle irreverence, his impressionistic archive footage documentary offers whimsical reflections on a lifetime of duty and service." -Screen International
"But while Elizabeth is neither a royalist tract nor the reverse, ultimately it’s hard to see the film as anything but an expression of fandom, in other words of love." ★★★★ -The Age AU
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Elizabeth is an archive-based documentary film about the Queen. A celebration. A truly cinematic mystery-tour up and down the decades: poetic, funny, disobedient, ungovernable, affectionate, inappropriate, mischievous, in awe. Funny. Moving. Different. The Queen as never before.
WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING:
"Couched in fondness and gentle irreverence, his impressionistic archive footage documentary offers whimsical reflections on a lifetime of duty and service." -Screen International
"But while Elizabeth is neither a royalist tract nor the reverse, ultimately it’s hard to see the film as anything but an expression of fandom, in other words of love." ★★★★ -The Age AU