Factual error: Performing for Queen Victoria is the famous opera composer Giacomo Puccini. This happens during her sojourn in Florence in 1888. Puccini was born in 1858, so he was barely thirty years of age, but the actor portraying him, Simon Callow, is in his late 60s (and it shows). Moreover, he is presenting his latest creation "Manon Lescaut"; in 1888 he hadn't even started working on it.
Victoria and Abdul (2017)
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Directed by: Stephen Frears
Starring: Michael Gambon, Judi Dench, Olivia Williams, Eddie Izzard
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Victoria and Abdul is a "mostly" true account of one of the most unlikely of enduring friendships between a reigning monarch and a poor Indian clerk who became her confidant, spiritual advisor and helped her understand the people of India that she was sovereign over-whom she never met-much to the chagrin of her advisors, her son the crown prince and the Buckingham staff. Lavish sets, good acting, and chemistry between the main stars elevate the film, which relies upon believably portraying an older, sickly, cantankerous monarch sharing fascination and respect with a tall, young Indian of low birth but high intelligence that both would risk everything they hold dear to maintain their remarkable relationship. Sometimes funny, sometimes moving, Victoria and Abdul was captivating and perhaps provides a glimpse into the very private life and love of a controversial world figure.
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Queen Victoria: I am 81 years of age. I've had nine children and 42 grandchildren, and have almost a billion citizens. I have rheumatism, a collapsed uterus, I'm morbidly obese and deaf in one ear. I have known 11 Prime Ministers and passed 2,347 pieces of legislation. I've been in office 62 years, 234 days. Thus, I am the longest-serving monarch in world history. I'm responsible for five households and a staff of over 3,000. I am cantankerous, boring, greedy, fat, ill-tempered, at times selfish and myopic, both metaphorically and literally. I am perhaps disagreeably attached to power and should not have smashed the Emperor of Russia's egg. But I am anything but insane. If the household wish to disobey me, so be it. Let them do it to my face. I will see everyone in the Durbar Room at once.
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