It's shame this Tudor drama didn’t try a bit harder to make Katherine Parr as watchable as her magnetically mean husband
It's shame this Tudor drama didn’t try a bit harder to make Katherine Parr as watchable as her magnetically mean husband) is nearing the end of his reign, his ulcerated leg oozing puss, which tentative doctors, ever fearful of his wrath, treat with traditional medieval maggot therapy offering the audience a particularly gruesome close-up.
Law steals every scene he is in. If the king’s age and illness make him in some ways better disposed to his gentle, intelligent than he has been to previous spouses, his temper is also hopelessly frayed. Henry has been at war abroad, during which time he left Katherine as regent in his stead, a role she evidently relished.
ended up. Vikander plays her with preternatural self-possession, nimbly absorbing and indulging her husband’s erratic behaviour. But his paranoia isn’t entirely baseless. Katherine has indeed been traitorous, meeting in secret with Anne Askew , a protestant preacher who condemns the Church’s ongoing preference for Latin over English .
The film doesn’t offer that much clarification over the nuances of the reformation, and viewers may well feel compelled to spend a fair amount of time on Wikipedia after watching, but let’s just say despite splitting from Rome, Henry is essentially still a Catholic, and Katherine is, at least according to conservative court bishop Stephen Gardiner, a heretic. Gardiner would like to burn her at the stake. We know Parr for being the wife who survived, but she very nearly didn’t.
The film suffers though from its passive portrayal of Katherine. No doubt this sense of invisibility is what a sensible spouse would genuinely have relied on in such circumstances, but it makes for rather pallid viewing. When Law is absent it often feels as if we are waiting for him to come back and rev things up.
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