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In blood-soaked Tudor England, Katherine Parr, the sixth and last wife of King Henry VIII, is named Regent while tyrant Henry is fighting overseas. Katherine has done everything she can to push for a new future based on her radical Protestant beliefs. When an increasingly ailing and paranoid King returns, he turns his fury on the radicals, charging Katherine’s childhood friend with treason. Horrified and grieving, but forced to deny it, she finds herself fighting for her own survival. Conspiracy reverberates through the palace. Will Katherine submit to the inevitable for the sake of King and country?

KARIM AJNUZ / KARIM AÏNOUZ

Born in 1966 in Fortaleza, Brazilian film director Karim Aïnouz studied architecture in Brasília and cinema at New York University. His first feature Madame Satã (2002) was selected for Un Certain Regard at Cannes. Love for Sale (2006) and I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You (2009), were both invited at the Orizzonti section of the Venice Festival and won a number of international awards. The Silver Cliff (2011) was presented at the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes. Invisible life (2019) won Cannes Un Certain Regard Award and then at the 48^th FEST 2020 won the Belgrade winner for the Best Film in the Main Competition Program.

Reveiws:

A revisionist royal portrait of Henry VIII’s last wife, Katherine Parr, that features all the pageantry you’d expect from a lavish costume drama.

Peter Debruge, Variety

 

For fans of historical drama, this one’s very much worth your time.

David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter