The Lost Prince
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Movie Reviews of The Lost Prince
Movie Review: This Film Really Touched Me
Summary: 5 Stars
Having no idea how historically accurate it is, The Lost Prince still touched me. Such a sad story, on so many levels.
The boys playing John are remarkably fresh actors (especially the younger of the two, who seems to play epileptic fits convincingly). Lalla the nurse is compassionate and loving, but unable to get most of John's family to pay much attention to him. John's parents are 1) preoccupied with WWI, 2) severely limited by their roles as royals/regents, and 3) beyond eccentric in some of their actions. One can occasionally see the king and queen try, in their limited way, to reach out to their youngest son - and fail. John's brother George is a great friend, champion, and companion, but - as other reviewers have mentioned - lives an unhappy adult life and dies young. The doomed Russian imperial family are beautiful and haunting, with the Empress even more peculiar and domineering than I have read elsewhere. John's grandmother (Queen Alexandria) and grandfather (King Edward VII) are sympathetic to strange little John, but also remote.
Such a sad story - but beautifully told. I highly recommend it.
Movie Review: Perfect example of a super movie you just don't hear about
Summary: 5 Stars
This isn't the kind of movie that everyone is going to be talking about "at the water cooler." I just happened upon it, and it is SUPERB. Highest recommendation.Movie Review: Interesting way to depict World War I
Summary: 5 Stars
This recent British film focuses on Johnny, the son of King George V, who suffers from seizures and so is kept out of the public eye; but this is merely part of the story of the struggles of the British monarchy during the beginning of the First World War. More interesting is seeing the war unfold among Queen Victoria's grandsons--King George V of England, Kaiser Wilhelm II and Czar Nicholas--and then to witness the empires unraveling (they graphically depict the Bolshevik slaughter of Nicholas and his family), setting the bloody course for the rest of the twentieth century. I would certainly recommend this film. The acting is also superb. Miranda Richardson is certainly a true queen among actors. Movie Review: [Three stars out of Four] Long, Dull, Boring, drawn-out look at the Brits royal family
Summary: 3 Stars
Story centres on young Prince who never
quite grows up, who is kept locked up &
away from contact with everyday people.
Uppercrust brit production is in two parts
on DVD. Not for everybody's tastes but well
filmed, acted and great scenery. Queen's
visit to hospital to see youngsters blown
apart in WWI is not to be missed. A ringing
indictment against war.
Movie Review: Inside the royal family . . .
Summary: 5 Stars
This three-hour film made for BBC-TV is a story of a dozen years leading up to and including WWI, as seen through the eyes of the two young princes, Georgie and Johnnie, of the British royal family of George V and his wife Mary. Georgie (after his older brother's abdication many years later) is to become George VI, and Johnnie, afflicted with epilepsy, is shunted away from public view as well as the company of his family, where he grows up under the care of a devoted retinue, then dies at the age of 14.
Poliakoff's scripting and direction make this story fragmented and starkly cool, representing life in the royal family's many residences as claustrophobic and its members as emotionally distant from each other. Georgie is the winning center of warmth and intelligence in the film, befriending a close aid of the king's (played wonderfully by Bill Nighy) and regarding his young brother with unwavering affection. Also at the center of the film is Johnnie's devoted caretaker (Gina McKee) who struggles unfailingly to find room for him in his parents' hearts.
Meanwhile, events in Europe have their inevitable impact as both king and queen succumb to the dark forces that seem ready to sweep across war-time Britain. And their cousins, the Emperor of Russia and his family, are assassinated while Britain hesitates to offer them refuge from the Bolshevik Revolution.
A powerful film, without many moments of emotional release. The DVD includes a commentary that relates the historical research the the script is based on, as well as liberties taken. There is also a featurette portraying the career of director Poliakoff.