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The Girl King
Drama, History, Romance
A portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to historical character studies about unconventional rulers, political constraint, and romance complicated by social expectations.
- Tone
- cerebral, romantic, melancholic
- Payoff
- reflection, swoon
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- power, duty, gender roles, forbidden love, modernization
- Setting
- seventeenth-century Europe, austere royal court and diplomatic chambers
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