The King's Speech uses period locations that capture the feel of Depression-era Britain. Even the dirt on the streets was authentic, and the smog effects set off the fire alarms in John Lewis
Colin Firth makes his way down an opulent and very long room, its ceiling elaborately studded with gold mouldings, its panelled walls oppressively gilt-sprigged, garlanded, swagged and punctuated by Louis Xiv-style cherubs. Firth is playing George VI on his way to make his first wartime broadcast and the room is in Buckingham Palace – except it isn't, of course; it's actually in Lancaster House, tucked away between the Mall and St James's.
Now used by the Foreign Office for diplomatic conferences and assemblies, Lancaster House may actually be the grander of the two: when Queen Victoria once visited, she told its owner: "I have come from my house to your palace." The overblown state drawing room, with...
Colin Firth makes his way down an opulent and very long room, its ceiling elaborately studded with gold mouldings, its panelled walls oppressively gilt-sprigged, garlanded, swagged and punctuated by Louis Xiv-style cherubs. Firth is playing George VI on his way to make his first wartime broadcast and the room is in Buckingham Palace – except it isn't, of course; it's actually in Lancaster House, tucked away between the Mall and St James's.
Now used by the Foreign Office for diplomatic conferences and assemblies, Lancaster House may actually be the grander of the two: when Queen Victoria once visited, she told its owner: "I have come from my house to your palace." The overblown state drawing room, with...
- 1/3/2011
- by Geraldine Bedell
- The Guardian - Film News
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