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THE QUEEN
The Queen. Her majesty blindly confronts the media-flogged public uproar over the death of Princess Di and, thanks to the coaching and coaxing of new Prime Minister Tony Blair, somehow escapes with her temporarily damaged reign intact. Helen Mirrin invests the queenÕs stolidity with humanity and even a certain sly wit, and Michael Sheen is scarcely less good as the slippery, but somehow likeable, P.M. Director Steven Frears subtly shifts our sympathy to the beleaguered monarch and away from hysteria of the crowds who are demanding sentimental guff from a woman wedded to both tradition and to an intense (and, we come to think, possibly justified) dislike of her pestiferous former daughter-in-law. Wry, dry and wicked, The Queen is both delicate and unique in its imposition of a high comic manner on frenzied public events.
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