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‘Firebrand’ Review: Jude Law and Alicia Vikander Aren’t Sexy in Drama About Henry VIII’s Last Wife

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Cannes Film Festival, Henry (Jude Law) is away in France with his army and Catherine takes the opportunity to ride off to a mossy forest for secret meetings with Anne Askew (Erin Doherty), a childhood friend who is now preaching revolt against a new law that has banned English-language Bibles and returned authority to Latin-reading priests.

Compared to her radical friend, Catherine appears to be a cowed, abused wife. “He’s changed,” she tells Anne. “I’ve lasted longer than any of his wives since his first.” As pathetic as this special pleading might sound, Catherine is bold enough to give Anne a jewelled necklace to help fund her campaigning, and she informs the privy council that she wants to look into the publication of English-language Bibles once again.

Respected in court and adored by her various stepchildren, she is definitely doing better than her five predecessors.But then Henry returns earlier than expected from France, whereupon Catherine’s status plummets and Law steals the show.

He is hardly obese enough for the role, but he is horribly scary and funny as a cruel, paranoid despot who loves to be seen as a rollicking bon viveur while cheerily belittling everyone around him.

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