to get to my emotions..all of 'em.
Genevieve is the only Anne.
Richard Burton plays Henry as the ogre you expected but with some charm and vulnerability so that you believe that he could and did kinda attract the vivacious mindful young woman.
The end is crushing.....
Except Genevieve is too attractive to play the 'Goggle eyed whore'?
shareQuite harsh, I think.
Every era/generation has it's own standards of beauty.
There are so many portraits and paintings of people who were revered and/or had legends built around their charm and 'beauty', that do not measure up to what we are bombarded with today.
Surely you must be aware that beauty is in the eye of the beholder?
Holbein's painting of Henry, IMO, shows a very pompous, intimidating man who would never cause me to use the words 'attractive' or 'enigmatic' to describe him.
Yet apparently many thought of that of him, AT THAT TIME, especially in his youth.
Look at the actresses in the 20's and some Victorian stage actors , they don't quite compare to what Hollywood tells us what is attractive now...
For me, the point is that this film taps into the passion and determination of these characters and ,of course for us, in this time, we are encouraged to empathise more if they are played by people WE would find attractive.