Film
Mary Queen of Scots
- Director
- Josie Rourke
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 124 mins
Another prestige costume drama? Truly they spoil us. This one’s adapted by Beau Willimon (whose TV credits include House of Cards and the desperately, desperately dull The First) from John Guy‘s Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart and puts the mandatory feminist spin on the conflict between the titular tartan monarch (the great Saoirse Ronan) and Queen Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie).
Further F-Rating approval is guaranteed by the presence of Donmar Warehouse artistic director Josie Rourke, making her debut behind the camera. But it’s not all been plain sailing for this one, which has attracted the ire of grumpy historians. Rather inconveniently, they’ve found fault with Mary’s accent (it was French not Scottish, apparently) and point out that the big dramatic showdown between these two powerful women, er, never actually happened. Go here for our review.
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