Sunday, January 29, 2012

THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL starring NATALIE PORTMAN and SCARLETT JOHANSSON and ERIC BANA

If you aren't up to reading or you want to watch a film about the ambitious Bolyn family and King Henry VIII, you may love "THE OTHER BOLYN GIRL." I did! (Just keep in mind that this film isn't Alison Weir's book and she may have come to different conclusions about Mary Bolyn.)

The film shows that Anne tried to seduce her own brother hoping to concieve a child when she was married to Henry and he was through with her. That this brother could not go through with it. That his wife, ambitious for herself at court and frustrated in her arranged marriage with him because he would not have sex with her told the King what she saw. And so The Boleyn brother was then beheaded.

I'm linking to the IMBd (movie database) so you'll have a bit more information. Maybe if you read the book or watched the film, or done both, you will leave a comment - an opinion!


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