I saw this last night and its been on my mind a lot since then..

What a fantastic movie!!, i went in with high expectations, as i had only read very positive things about it, and I was definitely not disappointed, what a beautiful, sad and touching story Great acting overall, mads Mikkelsen is always good, and this is one of his best roles in my opinion, Alicia wikander was beautiful as the young queen, but the real star of this movie has to be Mikkel Boe Følsgaard as Christian VII, Wow!!, what a great actor, his portrayal of the mentally ill king was superb, he really made me sympathize with Christian, he may have been of his nutter and mean at times, but deep down, I think he was a good guy, but he was a very insecure young man, who didn't know how to behave properly, and who couldn't deal with the obligation of being king, he was misunderstood, and I felt really bad for him at times, I really like the portrayal of the relationship between the King and struensee, they were really very good friends/companions, and struensee was like a father to Christian.

The costumes were also beautiful, I love fashion in that period, and this movie had some beautiful clothes to dwell on.

It was about time my country did a movie on our royal history, and now they have, and the outcome is better then i could have ever expected, just beautiful, Hollywood couldn't have done it better, as a Dane I take pride in our danish (royal)history.

Go and see it!!, you wont be sorry

We didn't get too much Danish history at my school nor, I suspect, at most schools in England, so I came to this film more or less ignorant of the facts yet happy to accept that it was based on historical fact. At the beginning there are some stunning visuals that lull the viewer into a pleasant mood but we are soon disabused of the notion that this is yet another chocolate box potted history. After the briefest of sojourns in England we are whisked - along with Caroline, wed to a man she has yet to meet - to a Denmark where the politico/religio axis has the country in a headlock but we are smack dab in the centre of the Age of Enlightenment and things are about to change and then change again. The King - a beautifully judged performance by Mikkel Boe Folsgaard - is little more than an overgrown child with minimal interest in his bride - another fine performance by Alicia Vikander - and the catalyst in the woodpile is not the young Negro boy he treats as a pet so much as the German physician (Mads Mikkelson), a devotee of Rousseau who quickly gains the King's ear and the Queen's bed with the result that soon all three unite in a non-sexual menage a trois and push through several important reforms. It does, of course, end in tears but it also keeps us riveted for some two and a quarter hours. A fine effort.