Please read a review here
Please read a review and watch a video from the Mirror here
Please, read a review of the film from the Guardian here.
excel as wily foes
told with wit, flair and passion
albeit
snuffed
forthright
oozes world-weariness
the ravages of the pox
barren
a seething John Knox
brands Mary “a murderous harlot… Queen Strumpet”
muse upon
wry script
a wily tactician
stoney visage
plaudits
riveting
overwrought
cottage beset by billowing sheets
smacks of contrivance on screen
buoyed by Max Richter’s swirling score
Please, read ANOTHER review of the film from The Guardian here.
Vocab:
loom out
prow
a lop-sided double act
incumbent
cousinmance
duplicituous men
subdue
screeching preaching misogyny
deffidently
laidy-in-waiting
to upstage sby
lumbered with leaden historical exposition dialogue
snap
