Both of these actors have played real people before: Anthony Hopkins in Shadowlands as C.S. Lewis and Helen Mirren in The Queen as Elizabeth II — the monarch of Great Brittan. (parentpreviews.com)
The result is a defiantly unresolved exploration of the myth and memory of the African - American experience, an experience not fully collective or personal, but something uncomfortably in between, unfolding in a sinister and humorous shadowland of grotesque silhouettes and puppets. (artbook.com)
The movie Shadowlands got it right, therefore, in a conversation it imagines between Lewis and Joy. (firstthings.com)