A Royal Weekend is an elegant and ironic comedy sourranded by a fairytale atmosphere,

with flower-filled fields, well-decorated interiors, perfect costumes, as the legendary full

pastel colors and millinery hats of Queen Elizabeth II, with a photography and sets

that are based perfectly to the historical period of the ’30s. 

The director, Roger Michell, leads us in the rooms of that weekend, when, in June

1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor host the King and

Queen of England for a weekend at their home in Hyde Park on Hudson.

The first visit by a British monarch in America will be the occasion for a special

relationship between the two countries, but also for a deeper understanding of

the mysteries of love and friendship. Events proceed in the form of re-enactment

of Daisy, the fifth degree cousin of Roosevelt, reluctantly involved in one of the most

curious in the history of the thirty-second President of the United States of America.

From the story of Daisy emerges especially the relationship between the Old World

and the New one, between the real bearers of the banner of tradition and good

manners,  and the presidential couple, modern, liberal and far from being

concerned about the formalities.

The highlight of the film is the frank and joyful tone with which Roger Michell

choose to present the figure of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, retrieving the size

and fragility of human fallibility, with ironic dialogues supported by the strong

performance of Bill Murray.

In cinemas from 10 January 2013.  

SOURCE: Imdb

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