The Young Victoria
Year: 2009
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Studio: GK Films, Mandate International, Sikelia Productions
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Cast: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson, Jim Broadbent, Thomas Kretschmann
Crew: Jean-Marc Vallée (Director), Julian Fellowes (Writer), Sarah Ferguson (Producer), Tim Headington (Producer), Graham King (Producer), Martin Scorsese (Producer)
Runtime: 105 minutes
Release: Mar 04, 2009
IMDb: 7.17/10 by 1,024 users
Popularity: 2
Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
Language: Deutsch, English
Budget: 35,000,000
Revenue: 29,196,409

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.