She may be the last relatively untapped figure in
British heritage cinema's well - worn library of queenly narratives, but she has once more been passed over for the privilege of fronting the latest middlebrow, true - life royal drama, fast becoming an annual fixture on the UK
film calendar.
It sometimes feels that the
British film industry only makes about three or four different kinds of movies: dreadful gangster
films that rarely get a release abroad, gritty social realism pictures, period costume dramas, and semi-quirky comedies with a tearjerking side, exemplified by something like «Billy Elliot» or «The Full Monty,» but more often turning out like «
Calendar Girls» or «Song For Marion.»