Synopsis
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Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy.
Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy.
Greta Garbo John Gilbert Ian Keith Lewis Stone Elizabeth Young C. Aubrey Smith Reginald Owen David Torrence Gustav von Seyffertitz Georges Renavent Ferdinand Munier Richard Alexander Hooper Atchley Barbara Barondess Wade Boteler James Burke Gladden James Frank McGlynn Jr. Cora Sue Collins Carrie Daumery Muriel Evans Edward Gargan Paul Hurst Lawrence Grant Sam Harris Fred Kohler Edward Norris Bodil Rosing Tiny Sandford Show All…
Rainha Christina, Königin Christine, クリスチナじょおう, Dronning Christina, La Reine Christine, La regina Cristina, Krisztina királynő, La reina Cristina de Suecia, המלכה קריסטינה, 瑞典女王, Кралица Кристина, Drottning Kristina, 크리스티나 여왕, Rainha Cristina, Королева Кристина, La Reina Cristina, クリスチナ女王, La reina Cristina de Suècia, Královna Kristýna, Królowa Krystyna
Two kisses and a crossdressing sequence were enough. To any queer woman, Christina could not be more queer, even if she does spend most of the film in love with a man. To any trans person, Christina is a fountain of dysphoric behaviors and triggers. This film, with its tragic hetero-romance, is as openly queer as it probably could be. Two kisses, and a crossdressing sequence. It somehow manages to convincingly have two women be in love, and two men, but with only three characters, because subtext can isolate moments and spin them into whole universes. In reality, she was in love with a woman and left not for a man but for herself. Hollywood tries in their own ways to honor that, but it's still laden with this unnecessary connection. (The film itself, all massive old Hollywood-built sets and snowy landscapes and that low angle on the coronation scene is just stunning, truly stunning.)
Pride month: 10/30
100 minutes of greta garbo being bisexual, crossdressing, and wearing cool hats. basically what cinema was made for.
MGM really thought things through when they used "Go Gay With Garbo" as a slogan because i sure am gayer after watching this
interesting how they literally wrote a tragic lesbian love story and then auto replaced some dude in instead but the important thing is this: greta garbo in pants