The Young Victoria (2009)
As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the political machinations of her own family. Victoria's mother wants her to sign a regency order, while her Belgian uncle schemes to arrange a marriage between the future monarch and Prince Albert, the man who will become the love of her life.
- Jean-Marc Vallée
- Julian Fellowes
Rating: 7.2/10 by 999 users
Alternative Title:
A Jovem Rainha Vitória - BR
Młoda Wiktoria - PL
La Reina Victoria - ES
Genç Victoria - TR
La joven Victoria - AR
Младата Виктория - BG
Victoria: Les jeunes années d'une reine - CA
Victoria, die junge Königin - DE
Nuori Victoria - FI
Victoria - Les jeunes années d'une reine - FR
Vasilissa Victoria: Ta hronia tis niotis - GR
Az ifjú Viktória királynő - HU
Victoria ha'tze'ira - IL
Viktorija: jaunoji karaliene - LT
La reina joven - MX
La joven Victoria - PE
A Jovem Vitória - PT
Tanara Victoria - RO
Mlada Viktorija - RS
Молодая Виктория - RU
Mlada Viktorjia - SI
年轻的维多利亚 - CN
年轻的维多利亚女王 - CN
Country:
United Kingdom
United States of America
Language:
Deutsch
English
Runtime: 01 hour 45 minutes
Budget: $35,000,000
Revenue: $29,196,409
Plot Keyword: royal family, biography, royalty, period drama, 19th century, british monarchy
Historically - as far as the cinema is concerned - Queen Victoria was born well into her seventies. Rarely has anyone tried to depict her early years and sadly, this is a rather shallow attempt so to do. Emily Blunt portrays the Queen with some fortitude but the rather soppy performances from Rupert Friend and Paul Bettany don't give us anything like a proper comprehension of the struggle she had, as a (young) woman, to establish herself at the head of an empire riddled with chauvinism, ambition and pomposity. Miranda Richardson as her mother takes up some of the slack in this lacklustre effort with the occasional, wise, contribution from Harriet Walter as the dowager Queen Adelaide welcome too. If it is a love story, then it just about works - anything else is just too far out of reach.
