What a subtle and funny and pitch-perfect performance. I'd mention the Oscar and yodel something blurb-worthy like "Long live Dame Helen." But that would be undignified.
I'll just say, 'well done.'
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(CBS) CBS News Sunday Morning contributor David Edelstein politely applauds Helen Mirren's performance in "The Queen.
Helen Mirren has built quite a following with her portrayal of a police detective in the British TV series "Prime Suspect." Now, in a brand new movie, she has been given a dramatic promotion in rank, when she plays Queen Elizabeth II in the wake of Princess Diana's untimely death. Here's the basic story of "The Queen": A pretty and vulnerable young woman marries into a stuffy royal family and runs afoul of the prince's mother, who's cold and dowdy and an enemy of spontaneous emotion.
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Helen Mirren has built quite a following with her portrayal of a police detective in the British TV series "Prime Suspect." Now, in a brand new movie, she has been given a dramatic promotion in rank, when she plays Queen Elizabeth II in the wake of Princess Diana's untimely death. Here's the basic story of "The Queen": A pretty and vulnerable young woman marries into a stuffy royal family and runs afoul of the prince's mother, who's cold and dowdy and an enemy of spontaneous emotion.
Pretty standard fairy-tale stuff. Except it's topsy-turvy.
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