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Queen Christina (1933)

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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

Unrated, 1 hr. 41 min.

Drama, Romance, Classics

S.N. Behrman, H.M. Harwood

Sep 6, 2005

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All Critics (16) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (12) | Rotten (0) | DVD (5)

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

October 16, 2007 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
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 | Comment
Movie Magazine International

Worth it for pairing of Garbo and Gilbert alone.

November 9, 2006 Comment
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 | Comment
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 | Comment

Probably the best film the legendary Greta Garbo ever made.

August 7, 2002 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | Comment
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 | Comment
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 | Comment
Combustible Celluloid
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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

January 13, 2008
webalina

Super Reviewer

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
flixsterman
Randy Tippy

Super Reviewer

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