Rent The Girl King (2015)

Feisty Female - The Girl King review by CV

It was good to see a film about Sweden's magnificence in the 17th century and their first female monarch, Queen Kristina, who styles herself as a virgin king. There was some depth to the dialogue especially as Kristina invites the great French philosopher Rene Descarte as personal mentor to her palace. (Unfortunately the severe climate did him in although the film may suggest an alternative theory.) Following on from the Thirty Years War it was interesting to learn about the tension between Catholicism and Lutheranism beliefs that were hot in the Swedish court and Kristina's ambivalent stance. Interesting characters but we don't see much of the Swedish landscape although some indoor scenes themselves well convey severe winter conditions. Seems to be an international cast with some dialogue in French. If you have watched films about Elizabeth I, compare Sweden's similarly styled monarch.