I absolutely loved this film. I had not heard the story, so was first of all blown away by this. Secondly, I loved the director's (Lowthorpe's) imaginative and modern approach to filming and editing. It would have been so easy to do a traditional TV drama piece: wide shot, medium shot, close up for the emotion. I felt I was there and using a modern idiom in the style made the drama and intrigue so modern, so 'now' for me. I remember the first films I saw of hers, it was a period piece set in a railway station. The director had not asked the modern dressed travelers to leave. It was so refreshing. Drama has to cross centuries for us to engage and that is what Lowthorpe is doing for me in her work.
Review of The Other Boleyn Girl
