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Title: The Young Victoria (2009)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Emily Blunt | ... | Queen Victoria | |
| Rupert Friend | ... | Prince Albert | |
| Paul Bettany | ... | Lord Melbourne | |
| Miranda Richardson | ... | Duchess of Kent | |
| Jim Broadbent | ... | King William | |
| Thomas Kretschmann | ... | King Leopold | |
| Mark Strong | ... | Sir John Conroy | |
| Jesper Christensen | ... | Baron Stockmar | |
| Harriet Walter | ... | Queen Adelaide | |
| Jeanette Hain | ... | Baroness Lehzen | |
| Julian Glover | ... | Duke of Wellington | |
| Michael Maloney | ... | Sir Robert Peel | |
| Michiel Huisman | ... | Ernest | |
| Genevieve O'Reilly | ... | Lady Flora Hastings | |
| Rachael Stirling | ... | Duchess of Sutherland | |
Dominated by her possessive mother and her bullying consort, Conroy, since childhood, teen-aged Victoria refuses to allow them the power of acting as her regent in the last days of her uncle William IV's rule. Her German cousin Albert is encouraged to court her for solely political motives, but, following her accession at age eighteen, finds he is falling for her and is dismayed at her reliance on trusty Prime Minister Melbourne. Victoria is impressed by Albert's philanthropy, which is akin to her own desire to help her subjects. However, her loyalty to Melbourne, perceived as a self-seeker, almost causes a constitutional crisis, and it is Albert who helps restore her self-confidence. She proposes and they marry, Albert proving himself not only a devoted spouse, prepared to take an assassin's bullet for her, but also an agent of much-needed reform, finally endorsed by an admiring Melbourne. Written by don @ minifie-1
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Sometimes I'm glad that my grasp of English history is pathetically feeble. It makes movies like "The Young Victoria" much more suspenseful than they might otherwise be. I of course knew that Victoria reigned for a large part of the 19th century and that she died in 1901; I also knew that she was a renowned and powerful monarch. I didn't know much about her love life, and "The Young Victoria" filled that gap in my knowledge nicely.
Emily Blunt plays Victoria with a distinctly modern edge of feminism which may feel a bit anachronistic to picky historian purists but which also works. After all, women like Victoria WERE the feminists of their time, forced into making their mark in what was largely a man's world by a man's terms. I'm convinced that Blunt is one of the most promising of today's young actors. She has tremendous presence on screen; while she's on it, you don't want to look anywhere else. That presence is somewhat wasted in this movie, because her biggest competition comes not from any other actors but from the period sets and costumes. But she gives this rather light and inconsequential film some substance by virtue of simply being in it.
Rupert Friend plays Albert, the man Victoria eventually marries, while Paul Bettany plays her chief adviser and confidant, the man angling to get himself married to her for his own political gain. The cast of British regulars also includes Jim Broadbent, who gets crazier with every role he plays, Miranda Richardson, as Victoria's doormat of a mother, and, notable in a small role, Harriet Walter as Victoria's widowed aunt and the only person other than her eventual husband who gives her any advice that's worth a damn.
Grade: B+