Margot Robbie (centre) plays Queen Elizabeth I in Mary Queen of Scots (category: IIB), directed by Josie Rourke and co-starring Saoirse Ronan. Photo: Parisa Tag Margot Robbie (centre) plays Queen Elizabeth I in Mary Queen of Scots (category: IIB), directed by Josie Rourke and co-starring Saoirse Ronan. Photo: Parisa Tag
Margot Robbie (centre) plays Queen Elizabeth I in Mary Queen of Scots (category: IIB), directed by Josie Rourke and co-starring Saoirse Ronan. Photo: Parisa Tag
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Mary Queen of Scots film review: Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie in enjoyable but inaccurate royal biopic

  • Director Josie Rourke brings a fresh, feminine viewpoint of sisterhood and female solidarity between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots
  • But the film is let down by a fabricated, close relationship between the two that never existed

Topic |   European films
Richard James Havis

Updated: 7:14am, 12 Mar, 2019

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Margot Robbie (centre) plays Queen Elizabeth I in Mary Queen of Scots (category: IIB), directed by Josie Rourke and co-starring Saoirse Ronan. Photo: Parisa Tag Margot Robbie (centre) plays Queen Elizabeth I in Mary Queen of Scots (category: IIB), directed by Josie Rourke and co-starring Saoirse Ronan. Photo: Parisa Tag
Margot Robbie (centre) plays Queen Elizabeth I in Mary Queen of Scots (category: IIB), directed by Josie Rourke and co-starring Saoirse Ronan. Photo: Parisa Tag
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