{"id":732,"date":"2013-12-23T18:16:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T07:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/?p=732"},"modified":"2013-12-23T18:16:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T07:16:32","slug":"review-a-royal-affair-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/12\/23\/review-a-royal-affair-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: A Royal Affair (2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_733\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-733\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/A-Royal-Affair-Movie-Stills-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-733\" alt=\"A-Royal-Affair-Movie-Stills-6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/A-Royal-Affair-Movie-Stills-6-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The love triangle: Doctor, Mad King, Queen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An absolute masterpiece of drama and spectacle chronicling the marriage of\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Caroline Matilda of the UK to the mad\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">King Christian VII of Denmark in the 18th Century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The King is somewhat disinterested in his new bride who he often refers to as &#8220;mother&#8221; (then wonders why he is not potent with her!) preferring common street prostitutes. In order to deal with a King that is quite obviously bark, stark raving mad the court employs the services of a personal physician to treat him. His doctor (played by popular Danish actor\u00a0Mads Mikkelsen) befriends the king and becomes his closest confidant.<\/p>\n<p>All travels well until Mads starts an affair with the Queen ala Rasputin and the inevitable downward spiral begins.<\/p>\n<p>Its very hard to fault this period piece, it authenticity and\u00a0Mise en sc\u00e8ne\u00a0make it a must watch on there own, that&#8217;s before we even look at its very interesting and enlightening narrative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An absolute masterpiece of drama and spectacle chronicling the marriage of\u00a0Caroline Matilda of the UK to the mad\u00a0King Christian VII of Denmark in the 18th Century. The King is somewhat disinterested in his new bride who he often refers to as &#8220;mother&#8221; (then wonders why he is not potent with her!) preferring common street prostitutes. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/12\/23\/review-a-royal-affair-2012\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: A Royal Affair (2012)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}