Prezzo:
Venerdì 06 | 18.15
Cinema
Luganese
Mary, Queen of Scots (2018)
125 minutes
Directed by Josie Rourke
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Jack Lowden, Joe Alwyn, David Tennant, Gemma Chan, Guy Pearce
We begin at the end, in 1587, with a candle being snuffed out as the Catholic Mary is led to the executioner’s block. From here we flash back to 1561, and Mary’s return to Scotland following the death of her husband. Her arrival, and claim to Elizabeth’s throne, alarms her heirless (Protestant) cousin, and sets warring factions in motion on both sides of the border. Mary puts herself under the protection of her dubiously loyal half-brother James, Earl of Moray, and for England her mere presence is an intolerable provocation. It is the beginning of an opaque and deadly strategic confrontation with Elizabeth, something between a duel and also a kind of love affair, or cousinmance, two women who know what it is like to be lonely and surrounded by duplicitous men. Perhaps, like the destroyer’s captain and U-boat commander in a war movie, they have a kind of respect for each other. Advised by courtier William Cecil in silky, nasal tones, Elizabeth embarks on a decades-long game of diplomacy and threat with Mary, in which she is to offer up her own beloved favourite Robert Dudley as a possible husband for her, whose role would be to subdue and control the Scottish queen in the English interest. Mary accepts instead the opportunist romance of Catholic Henry Darnley, who wants this marriage to reclaim his own lands and wealth and is another male schemer, along with Mary’s eventual third husband, Lord Bothwell. All the time, Elizabeth is persuaded to use the screeching, preaching misogyny of the Church of Scotland’s John Knox as a means of destabilising Mary.
Info Evento
Venerdì 6 Marzo 2020
dalle 18.15
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Cinema Lux
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