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Toronto is obviously digging the corsets this year. Weeks after Jon Amiel’s Charles Darwin biopic “Creation” was announced as the opening film of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, fest organizers have revealed that Jean-Marc Vallée’s “The Young Victoria” will close proceedings. This choice of bookends gives an odd symmetry to the festival schedule: both […]
‘Young Victoria’ to close TIFF, Egoyan’s ‘Chloe’ added
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:16 pm · August 4th, 2009
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REVIEW: “The Young Victoria” (**)
Posted by Guy Lodge · 12:04 pm · March 9th, 2009
Somewhere out there, wherever such souls reside, Anne of Great Britain must be wondering what she had to do during her reign to merit her own prettily mounted biopic. She may be the last relatively untapped figure in British heritage cinema’s well-worn library of queenly narratives, but she has once more been passed over for […]
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‘Young Victoria’ surfaces
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:08 pm · February 5th, 2009
A lavishly mounted biopic of the eponymous British monarch that boasts Martin Scorsese among its producers, “The Young Victoria” seemed primed for Oscar consideration last year. Sandy Powell’s typically elaborate costumes were an apparent shoo-in, and some pundits had star-in-waiting Emily Blunt as a dark horse on their Best Actress lists — until the film […]
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