Period Drama Challenge: The Duchess

I signed up for Period Drama Challenge. To check out the challenge please visit Lights, Camera...History! You commit to certain amount of movies within certain catagories. I choice to watch 6 movies before 1/7/10. The catagories I picked:

• Through the Centuries ( 1 movie per century)
• War & Revolutions
• All Over The World (1 movie per country)1
• Kings & Queens (central polt around royalty) 1

Though I wished I could change War & Revolutions to the Bonnets catagory. Oh Well.

First I want to say I am not a very good reviewer. I never excelled in writing. I never really liked writing papers. So forgive me if my post seems high schoolish. So my first pick was "The Duchess" for the Kings and Queens catagory. It was based on the book by Amanda Forman, "Georgianna, The Duchess of Devonshire". I enjoyed the book. It was about Georgianna Spencer Cavendish who was a great great great aunt of Lady Diana Spencer, the Pincess of Wales.

Well, I was a little disappointed in the movie. The timing of factual things were way off. The movie showed a rape scene and the book mentioned nothing like that happening. Which I was not happy to see. While the book showed that Georgianna was caring and sympathetic, I never felt that from the movie. It felt superficial to me.

Alot of critics gave it three stars. I only would give it two stars.