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Plot: The queen of 17th century Sweden, distressed at the thought of a political marriage, goes wandering through her country in men's clothes and falls in love with the new Spanish ambassador.
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MCT:September 6, 2008This has become a new favourite. Garbo is stunningly charismatic as Queen Christina. Our gender-bending queen flirts with boys and girls, stays up late reading and hates religious wars. Could I love her any more?
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MCT:January 13, 2008This is one of Greta Garbo's better roles, playing the title role of Queen of Sweden Christina. She decides to go out alone -- dressed as a young man -- to get away from all the hubbub of being a royal. In a small inn, she meets John Gilbert, a Spanish envoy on his way to Sweden to meet with Queen Christina, whom he has never met. He believes her to be a young man, and they are forced to share a room in the crowded inn. He discovers her identity and they fall in love. Quite a bit of homoeroticism tinges this film, from Christina's hinted-at affair with one of her ladies-in-waiting, to Gilbert's attraction to whom he believes to be a boy. The idea that anyone could mistake Garbo for a boy is preposterous, of course. Some beautiful camera work inside the castle makes up for some shoddy back projection during Christina's travels. Garbo's performance is a little overly dramatic, as many of her talking parts were, but the end shot, where she sails off to a new life, is the stuff of legend.
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MCT:August 21, 2007garbo gets to ham it up as the
tom boyish queen of sweden.
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MCT:June 17, 2007
A wondrous classic and one of the most amazing acting in the movie history...Great Garbo was an absolute number one!
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MCT:June 6, 2007
Interesting to see a 75 year old movie. The part where Christina is memorizing the room where she first experienced love struck me - then I read that this scene was legendary.
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MCT:October 23, 2006
It's hard to find a good Garbo movie. This one by far is the best. You get a peak more into Greta's personality and one of her best performances.
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MCT:September 15, 2006
Garbo's presence is astounding as Queen of Sweden. Although highly fictional, this movie will satisfy both hopeless romantics and movie critics alike. Personally though, I prefer Camille :P
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