SOURCE: Aspen Film

Wed, Dec 20
5:30 PM
Harris Concert Hall
The Queen
Special thanks to The Little Nell
UK, 103 min.

Stephen Frears directs.
Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen star.

Venice Film Festival winner Helen Mirren stars as HM Elizabeth II in The Queen. Director Stephen Frears’ (Dirty Pretty Things) latest offers an intimate, revealing and often acidly funny portrait of the British royal family during the dramatic days immediately following the death of Princess Diana. Tony Blair (Michael Sheen) is newly elected as Britain’s new Prime Minister and the first crisis he negotiates is not an international incident, but one much closer to home. This fictionalized account explores the behind-closed-doors interaction between the royals and the new PM as they struggle to reach a compromise that honors privacy for a personal family tragedy and the public’s demand for an overt display of mourning. (UK, 103 min. PG-13. Print courtesy of Miramax Films.)