Queen Christina

Queen Christina

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Queen Christina

C. Aubrey Smith, David Torrence, Elizabeth Young, Georges Renavent, Greta Garbo

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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  • January 13, 2008
    This 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 ...( read more)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.
  • 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.
  • June 6, 2009
    La Garbo sin duda es soberbia es... tan difícil describirla, esta película nace de una excelente historia, acompañada de buenas actuaciones pero sin duda el gran atractivo es la despampanante Greta Garbo
  • February 24, 2009
    Entertaining fiction of the life of Swenden's queen. The last shoot is truly amazing.
  • October 28, 2008
    one of garbo's finest film is queen christina. as the titular swedish queen, garbo was afforded one of her most complex roles of her career.
  • September 6, 2008
    This 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?
  • July 15, 2008
    very good and underrated early 30s movie. Garbo really is one the all time greats.
  • January 3, 2008
    An excellent film! :) Fantastic!
  • December 12, 2007
    Very moving turn by Greta Garbo as the Queen of Sweden. Enjoyable!

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