Royal Wedding (2010)

Recommended

UK

Television Film

Director: James Griffiths

Writer: Abi Morgan

Cinematographer: G. Magni Agustsson

Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Darren Boyd, Gwyneth Keyworth, Alun Raglan, Sarah Hadland, Jacob Anderson, Kevin Bishop, Claire Cage, Wendy Phillips, Aled Pugh, Charlotte Rogers, Rebekah Staton, Kerry Joy Stewart

By turns funny, moving, transporting, and depressing if never entirely convincing or plausible (not that it really matters), this bitter-sweet BBC drama, featuring an excellent and very affecting performance from Whittaker, set against a royal wedding street party in a small Welsh village in 1981, paints a particularly pessimistic portrait of the decidedly narrow options of the working class women of that particular time and place. Iain.Stott