The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)

Director Justin Chadwick (Bleak House) continues the current trend of screen portrayals of Henry VIII’s court that resemble Hollyoaks in hoop skirts (see The Tudors). His adaptation of Philippa Gregory’s historical fiction about the Boleyn sisters is a vivid and enjoyably trashy film that doesn’t stint on the soap. This right royal love triangle, in which Scarlett Johansson’s docile beauty Mary Boleyn competes with hell-cat sister Anne (Natalie Portman) for the attentions of Henry VIII (Eric Bana), has it all – sisterly scheming, family betrayals, rape, adultery, even incest.

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