As Ponty and I have been going through the worst movies ever, it seems like a palette cleanser is in order. Too much of a good thing is a problem, but too much of a bad thing is probably worse (by definition, I suppose it is!).
Thanks to good ol’ Audre Myers, we have a reminder that plenty of good—indeed, great—things have been imprinted on celluloid. Not every film is a woke stinker with a strident “strong female character” who lacks any flaws or shortcomings.
Indeed, this film demonstrates how really to write a “strong female character”—and it was released in 1968! I thought those philistines were still dragging women to their caves by the hair back then. Well, they don’t come much stronger than Eleanor of Aquitaine; portrayed by the hyper-patrician Katharine Hepburn, 1968 Hollywood would run circles around Brie Larson.
Well, enough of my pontificating. Here’s Audre Myers’s—our own “strong female character” here at TPP—and her exquisite review of 1968’s The Lion in Winter:
The Portly Politico 