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Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s)

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United Kingdom · 2022
1h 29m
Director Roger Michell
Starring Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Genre Documentary

For over 70 years, Queen Elizabeth has served as the longest-serving female head of state in history. This archive-based documentary uses rare footage and contemporary interviews to trace the historical achievements of this icon and reveal a unique glimpse of the woman behind the legend.

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80

The Telegraph by

It is first and foremost a picture of her, but it is also a picture of us; and just as Jennings did in his wartime documentaries, it reminds us not just of her profound decency but also, oddly enough, of ours.

70

Screen Daily by Allan Hunter

Couched in fondness and gentle irreverence, his impressionistic archive footage documentary offers whimsical reflections on a lifetime of duty and service.

83

Original-Cin by Karen Gordon

It’s an interesting juxtaposition of the Queen as a woman, as a girl, as a monarch, at work, at play, in love. For anyone who grew up with the more matronly era of the Queen, images of her as a vivacious, playful, beautiful young woman are fascinating.

70

Variety by Owen Gleiberman

It’s a willfully idiosyncratic movie that feels like a strangely fitting final film, since it amounts to Michell’s cockeyed tip of the hat to the monarchy and what it means. You could have a good debate about what, exactly, he’s trying to express in “Elizabeth,” but what I saw is a level-headed adoration that is neither fussy nor old-fashioned, since it’s cut with an acerbic awareness of the absurdity of royalty in the contemporary age.

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