There's pageantry galore, arranged marriages (as well as doomed extramarital love stories) and often
some sort of madman near the throne or, in the case of Danish director Nikolaj Arcel's «A Royal Affair,» actually occupying it.
The promises and pitfalls
of the digital age is the perfect subject for Herzog, a rare filmmaker who's a bigger personality than most
of the people he makes films about — and considering the
sorts of eccentrics, dreamers and
madmen Herzog makes films about, that's saying a lot.