Rotten
For all its incident, A Royal Affair is slow and picturesquely framed - more of a languorously animated coffee-table book than a gripping drama.
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
A Royal Affair
Their love affair would divide a nation.
2012 · 2h 17m · R
Drama, History, Romance
Directed by
Nikolaj Arcel
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A Royal Affair
Overview
A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever.
Director and cast
- Nikolaj Arcel Director
- Alicia Vikander as Caroline Mathilde
- Mads Mikkelsen as Johann Friedrich Struensee
- Mikkel Boe Følsgaard as Christian VII
- Trine Dyrholm as Juliane Marie
- David Dencik as Ove Høegh-Guldberg
- Thomas W. Gabrielsson as Schack Carl Rantzau
- William Jøhnk Nielsen as Frederik VI
- Cyron Melville as Enevold Brandt
- Bent Mejding as J. H. E. Bernstoff
- Harriet Walter as Augusta - Prinsesse af Wales
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
90%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The film ends not on a happy note, naturally, but on a moment of hope. Love may not conquer all, but it has a power all its own.
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald
Fresh
Although the brazen lovers, bellicose ministers and backstabbing handmaidens are familiar elements, the film is so handsomely mounted that we happily endure the ride until the turning of the screws in the tragic last act.
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Fresh
Perhaps there's only so much to be done with a costume drama about illicit affairs and would-be coups.
Michael Nordine, L.A. Weekly
Fresh
What a piece of work is this historical drama.
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
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