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By Kyle | December 18, 2009
A costume drama with some intrigue and bite, “The Young Victoria” opens today. My review is up.
Topics: History, Movies, Politics |
December 19th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Fellowes makes all of these elements fresh without aggressively pushing the line that old times were just like modern ones.
I take it this means the movie is more or less free of the usual historical revisionism that pushes hackneyed feminist story beats in your face? Good, I might just see it then.