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Queen Christina

Queen Christina (1933)

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Release Date: Dec 26, 1933 Limited

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If Queen Christina is not the best of Greta Garbo's films (as many Garbo fanatics insist), it is certainly the most luxuriously romantic of her talkie features. The star is cast as 17th-century Swedish queen Christina, who feels that she can best function in a male-dominated world by adopting men's clothes and attitudes (this cross-dressing element adds a subliminally gay subtext which curiously makes the subsequent events all the more poignant). Fiercely devoted to her country and the welfare

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Drama, Romance, Classics

S.N. Behrman, H.M. Harwood

Sep 6, 2005

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All Critics (17) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (0) | DVD (5)

Decades later, Queen Christina remains one of Garbo's most poignant, touching, and enjoyable films, showing the Divine in all her glory.

June 23, 2012 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com
EmanuelLevy.Com

This is one of the few Garbo performances that hasn't dated badly.

October 16, 2007 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Rueben Mamoulian may have taken great liberty to change the historical facts to fit his film but it's a very entertaining one especially because Garbo is in every scene.

July 22, 2007 Full Review Source: Movie Magazine International
Movie Magazine International

Worth it for pairing of Garbo and Gilbert alone.

November 9, 2006
Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers

We are left to regard Garbo's beauty and guess at her thoughts as she sails to a destiny only she can see.

September 23, 2005 Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star
Arizona Daily Star

The whole is less than the sum of its parts, but it is of interest for four great scenes, one great closeup, and a homosexual subtext that was daring for its time.

September 19, 2004 Full Review Source: Goatdog's Movies

Probably the best film the legendary Greta Garbo ever made.

August 7, 2002 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Queen Christina (1933) is one of Greta Garbo's quintessential, most-remembered screen portrayals (and one of her finest films), with glowing scenes

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films

Greta Garbo so overpowers Queen Christina that it seems like there was no director involved at all.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid
Combustible Celluloid

Audience Reviews for Queen Christina

This is one of Greta Garbo's better roles, playing the title role of Queen of Sweden Christina. She decides to go out alone -- dressed as a young man -- to get away from all the hubbub of being a royal. In a small inn, she meets John Gilbert, a Spanish envoy on his way to Sweden to meet with Queen Christina, whom he has never met. He believes her to be a young man, and they are forced to share a room in the crowded inn. He discovers her identity and they fall in love. Quite a bit of homoeroticism tinges this film, from Christina's hinted-at affair with one of her ladies-in-waiting, to Gilbert's attraction to whom he believes to be a boy. The idea that anyone could mistake Garbo for a boy is preposterous, of course. Some beautiful camera work inside the castle makes up for some shoddy back projection during Christina's travels. Garbo's performance is a little overly dramatic, as many of her talking parts were, but the end shot, where she sails off to a new life, is the stuff of legend.

UPDATE: Saw this again today, and am upping my rating a star. That might be a bit generous, but every time I see this film (I think I'm up to about a half dozen) the better I like Garbo's performance.
January 13, 2008
webalina

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Epic, tragic and ripe with pre-code innuendo. Garbo is such a terrific star, not because she elevates her characters but because she makes them so damn personable. It's hard not to love her.
January 23, 2009
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  • La reine Christine (FR)
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