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<\/p>\nReviewed by Emma Karlsson. Viewed at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.<\/p>\n
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Set in the 18th century Denmark,<\/p>\n
A Royal Affair is a tale of monarch,<\/p>\n
King Christian VII of Denmark is ill,<\/p>\n
Nothing can help him, not even a pill,<\/p>\n
He marries a lady from England, Caroline,<\/p>\n
Christian is however afraid that Caroline will outshine,<\/p>\n
The greatness that he thinks belongs to his name,<\/p>\n
He yells at Caroline and put her to shame.<\/p>\n
Later on a physician gets hired,<\/p>\n
Struensee is not only a physician – but also a political ghost writer.<\/p>\n
Christian and Struensee become very close friends,<\/p>\n
or at least that’s what the king thinks looking through only his lens.<\/p>\n
Caroline is intrigued by this new friend of the king,<\/p>\n
Behind closed doors, in secret, Caroline and Struensee starts a thing,<\/p>\n
The two discuss ideas that leads to an affair<\/p>\n
Christian doesn’t expect anything; he’s not mentally there.<\/p>\n
Naturally the affair has consequences, big and small,<\/p>\n
when secrets are revealed; it ends with a brawl.<\/p>\n
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I salute The<\/i> Royal<\/i> Affair<\/i> for its beautiful photography,<\/p>\n
and for Scandinavia to believe in their projects; a scandinavian royal family biography,<\/p>\n
It’s a high budget film without shoving it in your face,<\/p>\n
It has a very nice editing balance; a great pace.<\/p>\n
Ultimately the film is about a country’s political reform,<\/p>\n
The love affair being exposed is only the eye of the storm.<\/p>\n
I really do not care much for the two secret lovers,<\/p>\n
I only care about how great Christian is, how uniquely he reacts when he discovers,<\/p>\n
that the two people who supposedly love him the most,<\/p>\n
only treats Christian as basically a house host.<\/p>\n
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