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“Well, what shall we hang: the holly, or each other?” Classically filmed and designed, it’s a powerhouse of a picture that holds up more than fifty years later as a testament to the kind of actors that could burn it all to the ground around them and still make every moment of the film look so damn beautiful. This is just what I need to get me in the Christmas spirit 🎄
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Switches from wit to venom faster than the flip of a coin. It’s almost impressive to note how high the stakes feel, considering that they are vehemently personal, yet they resonate on an epic, virtually blockbuster-level scale. This unflinching yet spirited clash between two titans is unmatched by anything in today’s cinematic standards. Yet, The Lion in Winter offers even more than the sum of its two main parts. It goes beyond a simple battle, transcending into what can only be described as the greatest domestic war of all time.
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If the dialogues of today’s films were half important and transcendent than they are in this film, I’m sure they would be much more interesting.
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Part of Buddy the Elf, What’s Your Favorite Color? “I hope we never die.” “So do I.” “Do you think there’s any chance of it?” The year was 1969. Nominations for the 1968 Academy Awards were soon to be announced. Naturally, the films leading the Oscar discussion and the nomination field were 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick’s dazzling venture into the far reaches of space, human evolution, and the future, and Rosemary’s Baby, Roman Polanski’s American debut featuring an oustanding Mia Farrow performance and a memorable exploration of maternal anxiety and paranoia. The two films combined to sweep the ceremony held in March, with 2001 winning Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, and Best Cinematography,…
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Nigel Terry as the dopey prince looks like a Monty Python character and I could never take him seriously Also baby Timothy Dalton as a sneaky French king rules
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BBre 8 月 24, 2026
There is something so endearing about the fact that Katharine Hepburn was a big fan of Peter O’Toole and wanted desperately to make a film with him after seeing Lawrence of Arabia because… well, same. This movie is hilarious and spectacular in its own right, but my goodness is that the most magnificent pairing. You can tell the two of them are just having a blast working with each other and it is a real privilege to watch. They are unbelievably strong, but then they also have the most tremendous supporting cast. This film is just as good as everyone always said, and it flies by in the blink of an eye.
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WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! every single person being the MOST dramatic, katherine hepburn nailing her performance, anthony hopkins being explicitly gay…. what more could i ask for
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If you thought YOUR family Christmas gatherings were dysfunctional, just watch The Lion in Winter, or read a sampling of my favorite quotes: – “I’d hang you from the nipples, but you’d shock the children.” – “A king? Because you put your ass on purple cushions?” – “Well, what shall we hang… the holly, or each other?” – “Oh Eleanor, you’ve brought me my tombstone! You spoil me!” – “I’m vilifying you for God’s sake— pay attention!” Peter O’Toole and Katharine Hepburn are a pairing made in heaven.
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‘If you’re broken its because you’re brittle’ Impeccable line delivered impeccably. Kat deserved that third Oscar.
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Man, I know Christmas with the family can be stressful, but this is a whole new level. James Goldman’s script is delightfully nasty, and the cast delivers each venomous line with a twinkle in their eye.
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Dialogue and plot on par with early Game Of Thrones seasons, so I loved this.
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Katharine Hepburn you literal queen 👸
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“I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows, and Henry knows we know it. We’re a knowledgeable family.” targaryens, hightowers and lannisters could never.
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Love how long this movie holds its opacity, that there are so very few moments throughout where the viewer can be certain if any given character is being truthful. O’Toole’s Henry II is very pleasing, steely-eyed in one scene and boisterous and playful the next, equally physical and intellectual. Hepburn is blazing, gets some of the best lines of the film and just totally fills the screen in her moments of sadism and irony and gleeful daggering. Timothy Dalton as Philip was also a favorite. Delicious in its toxicity & nuance. Logan Roy has this movie on his vision board.
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Beautifully written, composed, performed. There’s a scene “with a bed and tapestries where things got said” that was actually one of the best movie scenes I’ve ever watched (The actor for Phillip and Anthony Hopkins hooooooly shit the silences were loaded they were both so good). Everyone acted their fucking ass off! Especially especially Hepburn who still stole the show in a cast full of incredibly talented actors. I loved this and you should watch it immediately. I think they reused the giant chess set from Becket
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Quando pensamos em filmes de Natal, tendemos sempre a remeter para os clássicos infantis ou para as comédias românticas que se passam nessa época festiva. Os filmes de Natal são, por excelência, comfort movies. Pois bem, The Lion in Winter é quase isso, só que histórico, político, dinástico e passado entre os Plantagenetas. Em vez de uma família reunida à mesa para trocar presentes, temos Henrique II, os seus três filhos, Ricardo Coração de Leão, João Sem Terra e Godofredo;…
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Geoffrey: My you chivalric fool… as if the way one fell down mattered. Richard: When the fall is all there is, it matters. Immensely satisfying watching a family breakdown that’s not yours. In all seriousness, this is some of the finest acting ever put to screen and I just marvelled in it from start to finish.
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Genuinely one of the most bafflingly epic movies I’ve ever seen, a parent text to Succession. Consider me gobsmacked. This feels like one of those movies you’d find on VHS at a grandparent’s house and probably never watch because it looks boring, but if you did watch it it would change your whole perspective on your grandparent because they own it, but then you’d try to talk about it and they’d just shrug and treat it like a normal everyday movie they watch sometimes.
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This was a good movie it was well acted and . the costumey was really good . I would highly recommend this movie
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I thought Christmas with my family was terrible, some people have a very bad time
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Good, but Depressing as hell. Amazing visuals, excellent acting (especially from O’Toole – he rocks every second of this) great score from John Barry. But very grim storyline. Everybody hates each other. They’re all scheming and conniving.
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I really liked Becket, so I was ecstatic to know that Peter O’Toole played along Henry II again, and the “sequel” was even more well-regarded. Look, I really wanted to adore this like others do, but the first half was a drag. Honestly don’t know what failed for me, but it took me over half the film to suddenly become invested in the drama. It wasn’t terrible, but it was a weird clouding of disappointment over what I was watching. Having…
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Katharine Hepburn’s performance in this movie is one of the single greatest pieces of acting humankind has ever produced. A level of petty that has perhaps only been matched by Reynolds Woodcock himself
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This time around a lot of the dialogue did get repetitive for me but still thoroughly enjoyable!!
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Normal as hell (not)
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Wit and barbs a plenty as an incredible cast spit out the wonderful dialogue. A true delight and a rollicking good time if you get on its wavelength early. Succession really cribbed from this huh?
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“King Henry had no sons.” – Henry II Plantagenet, King of England, Duke of Normandy, of Aquitaine, Count of Anjou and Maine, Lord of Ireland. “Well, what family doesn’t have its ups or downs…” – Eleanor, Queen of England and Duchess of Aquitaine Of recent times, I have watched many a historical movie/show. The Lion in Winter has smashed them all out of the water. The writing is outstanding, which each line damning with faint praise, praising with faint damnations,…
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The dialogue was phenomenal, Katharine Hepburn as Eleonore “I fucked your dad” of Aquitaine was phenomenal, I barely recognized Peter O’Toole, Anthony Hopkins was phenomenal AND gay, this was much better than I anticipated.
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This film starts out slow but ends up being pretty good. This was Timothy Dalton’s debut role. About 20 years after this film Timothy Dalton was casted as 007.
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Such an intriguing film with two powerhouse performances from Peter O’Toole and Katherine Hepburn. The dialogue was just perfect through and through.
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quero acreditar que game of thrones se baseou nisso. em 02h15min, o leão no inverno consegue prender o público com tramas que prendem a atenção e atuações de tirar o fôlego. a trama se passa na idade média com a saída temporária de eleonor de aquitânia (hepburn) p/ encontrar seu marido, ambos rei e rainha se odeiam, mas irão passar o natal juntos e receber o rei da frança. contudo, essa breve saída causará grande alvoroço. o que mais chama…
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Rare to see something that so obviously and fouidly could be from stage or screen. The tapestries allowing for ironies, double ironies, triple ironies? Every sentence could mean everything or nothing, every pronouncement, every title. I would follow Katherine Hepburn of Aquitaine into a meat grinder and thank her for the privilege.
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Dream marriage
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They mention croutons. Does this mean they had chicken caesar wraps in 12th century England?
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Some awesome acting in this picture show.
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“You are Medea to the teeth !” Katharine Hepburn is absolutely brilliant in this film. Every time she opens her mouth, it’s so sharp, mocking, funny, and intelligent : she’s perfect for the role – how Henry dared to imprison his queen ! And by the way, it was quite a shock to see a young Anthony Hopkins at the beginning 😂
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I want a version of this that is exactly the same, except Eleanor can only speak French and nobody understands her.
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Amazingly written dialogue
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“What family doesn’t have its ups and downs?” Absolutely brilliantly chaotic. The double, triple, quadruple crossings from family that all have their own agenda & schemes to win. The dialogue of everyone interacting with each other is so well done. But the Tête-à-tête dialogue between Katherine Hepburn & Peter O’Toole is genuinely some of the best & most Witty I have ever seen. Any interaction between them I was captivated into it. From the delivery, to the speed of which it’s said & emotion…
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Um casos de família medieval e eu amei
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Visually quite beautiful. Katharine Hepburn really steals every scene she’s in. I was a little bored but I also have a headache so
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A portrait of a dysfunctional family at Christmastime, but it’s literally the royal family. This is such a juicy historical drama. From the writing, you can definitely tell it was adapted from a stage play. These are lines that are meant to be shouted to the rafters! All of the performances here are firing on all cylinders, as the cast members play this BIG. All the characters in this are either deviously plotting to take over the throne or are…
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Oh Katharine Hepburn how I love you.
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Snakkefilm. Meeeeget teatralsk. Alle skuespillere var oprigtigt gode, intet lavpunkt. Klar anbefaling og Anthony Hopkins er nok den mest alsidige skuespiller nogensinde😵
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Treats the pursuit of the English crown like an elaborate game, complete with plotting and catty barbs. And like A Man For All Seasons, it’s an extremely well-written drama about the goings on and personal betrayals behind a monarch’s power.
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This is a bad film. A very bad film. Hollywood at its worst. Hollywood doing Culture. The Lion in Winter is based on a play – I don’t know it, but I presume it is a bad play. In that it is about a family ripping into each other it feels like Edward Albee – a royalist, Medieval version of Albee…one with the Albee’s dialogue watered down into thin soup. The play has been opened up: we see Henry (Peter…
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katharine hepburn tan ben escollida per aquest paper que tota l’estona me l’he imaginada exposada al mnac al costat de les marededéu gòtiques
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It is an amazing piece of work from director Anthony Harvey. The classic. old period atmosphere really pulls me in and sets the tone right from the start. At its core. it unfolds like a quintessential family drama and it is portrayed exceptionally well. The complex dynamic between the characters constantly fighting. scheming. and clashing against one another while still sharing that underlying bond is handled brilliantly on screen. The remastered 4K Bluray presentation looks really nice. The visual quality holds up great and the disc comes packed with amazing interview extras and bonus material that make it a fantastic release.
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This movie is a treasure. The wittiness and pace of the dialog between Eleanor and Henry is virtually unmatched and Hepburn and O’Toole deliver it superbly and their chemistry is remarkable. Really fun to see Anthony Hopkins and Timothy Dalton in their first film roles. This isn’t a perfect film, but it might be a perfect script.
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The dialogue in this film is an absolute masterpiece and not a single actor doesn’t turn up
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Peter O’Toole and Katharine Hepburn star in a 134 minute historical film directed by Anthony Harvey, focusing on the power struggle between Henry the second and Eleanor. This is a very dialogue heavy film so I’m not even sure where to start picking lines out of it, but let it be said , you’ve heard of the war of the roses, but this is the war of the witty words! Primarily this is a character piece on Henry II of…
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This is so well acted and written I cannot in good conscience give it less than four stars. However something didn’t quite click with me and I don’t think that I’d watch this on my own again.
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Was enjoying the movie but when Timothy Dalton outed Anthony Hopkins I locked in so hard. Terrible horrible family and it was a joy watching them fight and argue.
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Powerhouse acting by Peter O’Toole (nominated for Academy Award for this performance) as Henry II, Katharine Hepburn (winner of Academy Award for this performance) as Henry’s estranged wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard Attenborough as the future Richard the Lionheart and son of Henry, who have no love for eachother, all fighting, scheming, and backstabbing over the naming of which of Henry’s three remaing sons will be named Henry II heir. With Timothy Dalton as Phillip II, newly appointed King of…
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every now and then you have to give it to the british
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that was not an easy question for me, and i don’t deserve an easy answer. the fact that after all of that absolutely nothing changed lmao literally my family
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First saw this in high school. I remember being stunned (in a good way) by the quality of the acting. In the hands of a better director, this could have been one of the all time greats. As it stands, the film is rather bland in its rendering. It is kept afloat almost solely by its staggeringly powerful and naturalistic performances from everyone involved, especially the one from Katherine Hepburn. My boy Anthony was killing it right off the bat!
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Average Cersei/Robert interaction whole family is basically hbo’s Succession medieval edition Surprised Henry didn’t smack Eleanor in this entire film, he has patience for that time period. Such an intense and bitter ragebaiting match, its a yearly christmas tradition lol. Craziest family get together ive ever seen,
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“I could peel you like a pear and God himself would call it justice.” The DIALOGUE in this film…..James Goldman, you dropped this. 👑
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what can i say, latin songs go hard🤷🏻♂️
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I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. Henry knows. Henry knows we know. We know Henry knows. We are a knowledgeable family. GREAT LINES, great dialogue, wow!!
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Muy impresionado por el tono perverso que la hace divertida a pesar de no ser una comedia. Una familia disfuncional con las mismas vibas depravadas que el matrimonio de Quién Teme a Virginia Woolf, interpretada por actorazos de dicción perfecta regodeándose y saboreando la tremenda colección de pullas, reproches, conspiraciones y traiciones. Dejas suelto 20 minutos a cualquiera de esta corte (a excepción del principe John, pobrecito mío) en la Itaca de Nolan y para cuando llega Odiseo eso es un parking del Alcampo.
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“Succession: 1183” A crystal-sharp script about familial love and hate, how the venom of the parents poisons their children, how we try to change and how we fail to our worst most impulsive natures, and how in the end, as age builds and time ticks on, we have to accept who we are and learn to love it and others inspite of it, or even because of it, else we crumble under the weight of our drastic corrections. It’s probably…
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Queen Katharine Hepburn rolling around on her bed describing the sex she had with her father in-law to her husband is a scene I will never forget. I don’t even think it was true she simply just wanted to rage bait him and it worked.
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When your circle’s small but y’all hate each other.
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Situationship from hell
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This movie is such a fascinating watch. It’s kind of an exhausting watch too, but I think it works to the film’s benefit! Seeing this whole family betray each other and Henry and Eleanor’s positively radioactive relationship/struggle for the Angevin Empire is so interesting.
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Wat vreemde film doordat het lastig te volgen was. Wat is gemeend en wat niet, wat zijn hun drijfveren. Maar best ok om te kijken.
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Peak opening theme
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what family doesn’t have its ups and downs?
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I love when Peter O’ Toole is shouting.
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Everyone chewing the scenery (but in a good way), script is 😘, Katherine Hepburn is the GOAT Queen.
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NOT to be a purist but I’ve loved the play for 20 years……. and I wish it was a 1:1 adaptation
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The Lion in Winter drinking game: Easy: – Rosamund mention – “I fucked your dad” – Wanting to kill their children Medium: – Eleanor/Henry tense face off – Scheming to supplement absent love – problematic gay shit Hard: – Someone makes an alliance – Someone is betrayed – Eleanor/Henry true love
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A complete masterpiece of character writing and performance. Hepburn and O’Toole are of course the standouts and are cutting, devious, and captivating from start to finish, but everyone is more than pulling their weight. The way the film and characters carry you from loving the catfighting at the start through to Henry and Eleanor’s final big scene as they crumble under the weight of their past mistakes is incredible. The cinematography is stagey basically all the way through but the power of the performaces and the way it lets everyone really act off each other makes that a strength rather than a weakness.
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There are families. And then there are families who would happily destroy one another over Christmas dinner if the inheritance were sufficiently interesting. The Lion in Winter is one of the most gloriously vicious films about power I’ve ever seen. I absolutely loved it. What makes the film so delicious is that almost everyone is horrible. And almost everyone has a point. Henry II wants control. Eleanor of Aquitaine wants revenge. Richard wants the throne. Geoffrey wants recognition. John wants…
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Ya tengo película para decir que es mi favorita y hacerme el pedante
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Wow… just… wow. What Katharine Hepburn does on here is some of the finest acting ever committed to picture. Leaves you speechless
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We’ve lost the art of great dialogue
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La típica pelea en la cena de Navidad pero en la edad media. Xd Viéndola con los ojos de hoy, me encanta la fidelidad con la que se centran en el ayer, en el sentido de que los valores “tradicionales” como hoy los conocemos no influyen en tratar de meterlos a calzador en las historias del pasado, ejemplo tooodas las películas de hoy con griegos siendo rubios y padres de familia amorosos xD Aquí se habla de org1as, guerra, relaciones…
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Honestly not sure I’ve seen a performance as good as Hepburn in this. Good god. One of the best screenplays ever. Shot and edited in a workmanlike fashion but executed perfectly because with writing and performances this good what else do you need
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like succession in that there’s a fuckup child, self important but ultimately loser child, and very depressed child but unlike succession in that this has katharine hepburn giving one of the best late career performances i’ve ever seen! really vulnerable and acerbic, no wonder that oscar was a tie! o’toole, hopkins and sexy timothy dalton also really great. good stuff!
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As great performances and deft writing goes I can’t say there are many comparable, but the movie didn’t keep my interest.
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Henry II has his estranged wife Eleanor, his three sons, and the King of France over for Christmas so they can all squabble—strongly, I might add—about who will succeed him. An amusingly anachronistic joke about how this resembles the premise of King Lear even surfaces in the script. There are strong performances by veterans and newcomers alike: Peter O’Toole and Katharine Hepburn light up the screen with their love-hate relationship, while Anthony Hopkins, in his first major film role, and…
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Mostly Hepburn, but some O’Toole showcase what great acting can be. Story and all the ’film bits’ just weren’t my cup of tea (was based on a play). The acting, and to a lesser extent the writing, gets all the credit
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Superior performance from O’Toole as Henry ll. Would put you in mind of Succession. There are only so many stories as such, and they can only be recycled. The best new filmmakers can do is ‘up-cycle.’ (Henry mentions King Lear in the first few minutes too.)
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Wojna na błędy ale zgódźmy się że się ze sobą nie zgadzamy
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Oh, my piglets, we are the origins of war. Interesting that this film is powered by a sensibility rooted deeply in its stageplay origins as so much revolves around performance – a terrific whirlpool of Machiavellian deceit forms around the voided souls of the power-hungry and the love-starved, and only when reduced to the most utter despondency can you be sure there’s any truth to the act. The film is propelled on the pace of their words, or, perhaps more…
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“Henry I have a confession. I don’t much like our children” “It’s heavy… Oh Eleanor, you’ve brought me my tombstone! You spoil me!” “Well, what shall we hang… the holly, or each other!?” PETER O’TOOLE AND KATHERINE HEPBURN ARE A TOUR DE FORCE HERE, MY GOD! Their dynamic was a wonder to watch, seeing them both utterly despise eachother and saying all the most ridiculous insults under the sun. Also, this was Anthony Hopkins DEBUT! His performance was incredible and…
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the Eleanor of Aquitaine Cersei Lannister equivalency in this film is insane. brilliant dialogues. cannot stop thinking about it.
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Nice to know the Christmas tradition of fighting over politics at the dinner table has been kept alive for 1,000 years
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My sons, ye are doing my fucking head in
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O’Toole come Macron con la passione per le vecchie bugiarde
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“My life, when it is written, will read better than it lived. Henry Fitz-Empress, first Plantagenet, a king at twenty-one, the ablest soldier of an able time. He led men well, he cared for justice when he could and ruled, for thirty years, a state as great as Charlemagne’s. He married out of love, a woman out of legend. Not in Rome, or Alexandria, or Camelot has there been such a queen. She bore him many children. But no sons.…
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I do love me some plays adapted to screen. The acting and dialogue in this are so fun! Apart from the dopey prince, all the plotting and backstabbing felt so believable. I think the explicitly gay character was handled well for the time, where it wasn’t his whole personality
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holy shit they were fucking cooking. yes, it’s a tad hammy in places. yes, it’s a little hard to follow. but scheming Katharine Hepburn? counter-scheming Peter O’Toole? Anthony Hopkins and Timothy Dalton royal yaoi? everyone’s plotting, everyone’s chirping each other like hockey pests, everyone’s stabbing each other in the back. ugh, it’s delicious some of my fave little exchanges: “I’d hang you from the nipples, but you’d shock the children.” “He’s got a knife!” “Of course he has a knife; we…
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gran representación de cómo luce una comida navideña en una familia disfuncional yay
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Capital “A” acting. Some really iconic scenes/lines but not for the faint of theatrical heart.
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Peter O Toole and Katherine Hepburn I think invented the term “two divas coming together to maximize their joint slay” during the making of this
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Yeah Katherine Hepburn deserved that Oscar – phenomenal performance as Eleanor
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when the fall is all there is, is matters!!!!!
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Too little Katharine Hepburn, a little too much white boys spewing bullshit Perfect Tubi watch as you can tell the director intended AI gambling ads to pop up every 30 mins
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Mennyire igaz, hogy szóval jobban lehet bántani, mint fegyverrel. Kegyetlen (szó)csaták voltak ezek, embert próbálóbb feladat volt ezeket végignézni, mint a Haragban a leszakadt arccal szembesülni, vagy a Harmadik műszakban az egyik tűzoltócsaj kettészakítását. A Succession és a Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ehhez képest kutyafüle.
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The dialogue the switch from fun banter to serious threats the dynamic between all the actors the performances THE DIALOGUE!!! oh my days…what I wouldn’t do to see this as a stage play
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Unfortunately my brain is so cooked that when he said “No one ever thinks of crown and mentions Geoff” all I heard was “what? No bless yous for Giacomo?”
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Theatrical, well acted (especially by the Queen), gorgeous on location and studio sets. All a bit funny but a batshit story and earnest emotion (and some thematic toying) makes this a good film. Quite enjoyable
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I really enjoyed rewatching this. Unrelated but: my film professor said that at a film festival, he saw Peter O’Toole coming out of the bathroom, pretending to fall down and then laughing at people trying to help him. Doing it multiple times and leaving everyone in a bewildered and anxious state.
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The script is superficially interesting- entertainingly witty and caustic. But it does get a little repetitive after a while. It doesn’t surprise me that the original stage production was a flop. The whole thing is intensely theatrical, which doesn’t do it any favours. I don’t mind purely dialogue-driven movies, far from it (eg the magnificent Glengarry Glen Ross) but they do need to amount to something. Here, it quickly becomes clear that everyone’s always either lying, being deliberately and self-confessedly…
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“My agent told me never to act with children and animals, and you, Peter O’Toole, are both.” so funny to read about the behind the scenes relationship between Katherine Hepburn and O’Toole like oh so this was a documentary lol. anyway the anthony hopkins/timothy dalton past sex reveal halfway through still shocked me to my core even though i knew it was coming this time Mavis is going through a Katherine Hepburn phase, I am going through a Peter O’Toole…
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Music in this is good. Love an Elenor of Aquitaine with a transatlantic accent
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Good lord the amount of talent in this film is bonkers.
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katharine hepburn smiling and flaunting her godly cheekbones in contempt, in disgust, in thinly veiled deceit, in bursts of gleefully inflicted anguish and torment, lmao one of the worst families everrrr and it’s just a regular christmas holiday for them 😄 also got to see fetal timothy dalton in his first film role, yay!!! he killed his monologue. the performances made this one for me (+ hepburn socially and psychologically eviscerating o’toole offscreen 😭)
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incredible performances all around. katharine hepburn is still fantastic almost 30 years past her prime. timothy dalton was such a cutie pie. also these two are the worst parents ever lmao.
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Perfect. Everyone is on 10. Truly puts the fun in dysfunctional.
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I’m vilifying you for God’s sake pay attention! Some delicious verbal sparring between Hepburn and O’Toole alongside a terrific supporting cast. I love when period pieces really lean into the period and this does a great job of making 1183 look just as grimy as I imagine it was.
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Excellent spiritual sequel to 1964’s Becket; with O’Toole returning as an older and wearier Henry II as he quarrels with his wayward sons John (Prince John of Robin Hood fame), Richard (The Lionheart) and Geoffrey. Joining them for Christmas court is Henry’s long suffering, embittered wife/verbal sparring partner Eleanor of Aquitaine, played by the glorious Katherine Hepburn. Where Becket was more of a sombre Chamber piece, The Lion In Winter feels a good deal larger in scale with more of…
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this movies is bonkers. good? idk? bananas. nuts
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Rip Cersei Lannister and Robert Baratheon, you would’ve loved Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II 🥀 I wish every film had writing as provocative as this. Every single line was so goddamn good and the deliveries even better holy fucking shit
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Henry, I don’t know what you were expecting, but that’s what happens when you raise your children to be SOCIOPATHS. Truly an amazing movie with such fantastic performances. I’m not sure if I don’t like Nigel Terry’s performance or if I just don’t like John. I think I’m more leaning towards the character. He was just way too over the top for me.
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极其优秀演技，超级drama的宫廷大戏，你们一家子人真的是…
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I should have been a fool not to love you
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Mm4rym4ry 7 月 29, 2026
“I piss on your peace”
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🪤🪤 7 月 28, 2026
I could talk about the actual script here but we all know that it’s perfect. Hepburn is the obvious home run for performances here but Dalton as Philip is always who I think about the most. I love how much he plays Philip like someone who clearly despises Henry but is still so envious of the respect Henry is able to command through his tenure as a leader, something that Philip is and will be denied for years to come.…
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Some funny one liners, Katherine Hepburn was great. Overall, not interesting enough to stay awake for it.
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Peter O’Toole: *runs out of the room screaming in emotional torment* Katharine Hepburn: “well I guess every family has their ups and downs.” *** More of a 1960s psychological dissection of the dysfunctional nuclear family dressed up as a period piece. Like a medieval Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. A setting which I think made it more interesting. Even though it was adapted from a play, I thought the filmmakers did a great job expanding the scope to be worthy of…
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Can see why this isn’t in the Christmas rotation
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adinin henry olup adam cikma ihtimali👉🏻sifir
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Looks really good (sets and costumes and the acting is obviously superb… but I cannot tolerate the Lionheart slander. The 60s academia really just made every unmarried man in history gay, and completely disregards any other reason he or other men would avoid specific marriages. Richard put off marrying Alice due to all the political strings attached to her… and he did not marry anyone else because that would have set off a political minefield. Once he had the power…
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Drame historico-familial, très verbeux, qui brille par ses dialogues extrêmement bien écrits et ses interprétations, allant de l’idiotie assumée (Jean) à la fourberie typiquement française (Philippe). La réalisation a un peu vieilli par instants mais conserve toute sa grandeur et tout son charme
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Vu dans les années 2020. Lourd mais passionnant.
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Rreproved_daisy 9 月 5, 2020
A very finely acted film with some extra meaty dialogue. Katharine Hepburn excelled in her role – she’s a real vision. I did find the excessive backflipping, dissimulation and changing and shifting of plans a little annoying and, by the end of the movie, it’s not too clear what, if anything, has actually changed.
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One of the joys which movies provide too rarely is the opportunity to see a literate script handled intelligently. “The Lion in Winter” triumphs at that difficult task; not since “A Man for All Seasons” have we had such capable handling of a story about ideas. But “The Lion in Winter” also functions at an emotional level, and is the better film, I think. One of the flaws of “A Man for All Seasons” was that it was so graceful…
- Synopsis
- Henry II and his estranged queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, battle over the choice of an heir.
- Director
- Anthony Harvey
- Writer
- James Goldman
- Studio
- Haworth Productions
- Country
- UK
- Language
- English
- Year
- 1968
- Runtime
- 134 mins
- UK30 Dec 1968
- Australia13 Nov 2024
- Australia20 Aug 1968
- USA30 Oct 1968
- Brazil11 Nov 1968
- Greece31 Dec 1968
- Italy17 Apr 1969
- Netherlands29 May 1969
- Portugal13 Oct 1969
- Sweden18 Jan 1970
- Japan04 Feb 1970
- Germany16 Oct 1970
- Hungary24 Aug 1972
- UK26 Mar 1986
- UK28 Aug 1998
- UK02 Jun 2000
- UK08 Oct 2003
- Netherlands10 Jun 2009
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