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Queen Marie of Romania (9/10) by Tony Medley 105 minutes. NR. This is a movie! It tells the probably mostly unknown story of the Queen of Romania (Roxana Lupo) after WWI. Brilliantly directed by Alexis Sweet Cahill from a script by Brigette Drodtloff and Marie-Denise Theodoru, Cahill, Ioana Manea, and Gabi Antal, the recreation of the times is superb. Production designers Nora Dumitrescue and Laura Russu should get awards because there is no green screen here. It’s all shot on location in Romania and Paris, and the locations are gorgeous and lovingly shot, kudos to director of photography Gabriel Kosuth. The granddaughter of Britain’s Queen Victoria, the film tackles Queen Marie’s (whole name was Maria di Sassonia-Coburgo-Gotha) task as she is sent to Paris to take part in the negotiation of the Versailles (peace) Treaty that signaled the official end of WWI. We see the fools who were responsible for the war now bumbling their way to a horrible agreement that set the stage for Hitler and WWII. Lloyd George (Richard Elfin) and George Clemenceau (Ronald Genery) are aptly closed-minded and obstinate. But the guy who really destroyed the peace accords was the Democrat racist Woodrow Wilson (Patrick Drury) who is shown to be the arrogant, conceited alazon he really was. For some reason Wilson is always given a pass. Very few people know what a bigot Wilson was, but he was in a long line of Democrat racists starting with Andrew Jackson and continuing through Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan, up to today, and including LBJ, who was as outspoken a racist[1] as Wilson. But this movie is about Queen Marie. Lupo gives a performance for the ages. She is in almost every scene and steals the movie. She even looks like the real Queen Marie. Something’s wrong if this lady does not receive an Oscar® or multiple recognition, if not for this (well, it was released in 2019), at least sometime down the road. She is enormously talented and beautiful. It would have been nice if Cahill had provided a postscript on what happened to the characters, especially Queen Marie. But from what I know, you can take most of this to the bank which is unusual for a biopic. VOD (Audiences can purchase it from one of the video platforms - iTunes, Youtube, Amazon, etc.. Just to explain, SVOD - Subscription Video On Demand - would be Netflix, Prime, Hulu, etc.). Opens May 7 [1] (LBJ: “These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.”). The only doubtful thing about this quote is his use of the term “negroes” when he most often referred to them as “n*ggers.”
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