By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Starring: Alicia Vikander | Cyron Melville | David Dencik | Mads Mikkelsen | Mikkel Boe Følsgaard | Thomas W. Gabrielsson | Trine Dyrholm
Original language title: En kongelig affære
Country: czech_republic, denmark, germany, sweden
Year: 2012
Running time: 137
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276419/reference
Toni says: “This Danish film contains several standout performances adroitly balancing the personal and romantic with the political and philosophical. Mikkel Boe Følsgaard plays the ‘crazy’ King who is more naïve and irrepressible, not suited to palace intrigue. Alicia Vikander is his wife in name only who is seduced both by Enlightenment ideals and their embodiment in the person of royal physician played by Mads Mikkelsen. Beyond the emotional complexity of the love triangle, the characters must also contend with political ambitions of the ‘old guard,’ well represented by Trine Dyrholm as Juliane Marie and David Dencik as Ove Goldberg, trying to stymie the king’s attempts at reform.”