Monarch

M O N A R C H 

109 mins / 35mm Col./UK/1:185 academy

one night   one king   one assassin

 

NEWS:

Monarch was being presented by Sony Pictures as part of their High Definition digital 4k projection screenings at the Odeon Leicester Square.

 

   

 

Part fact, part fiction this unique period thriller unfolds one stormy night, when an

injured King Henry VIII arrives at a manor house closed for the season. Henry is

without the power and control of his palace and is vulnerable from those around

him, and from his own sanity. Monarch unfolds on one night in the year of Henry’s

death, 1547

 

 

TP McKenna plays Henry; after starring alongside Richard Burton’s Henry VIII in

the epic Anne Of A Thousand Days and The Charge of the Light Brigade; with

Jean Marsh Upstairs Downstairs, Willow and Return to Oz, Fatherland) playing an amalgamation of his ex-wives.

 

 

US Premiere : Mill Valley Film Festival official selection

UK Premiere: Edinburgh International Film festival

Selected as the only UK film to screen at the European Film Week in Madrid

                                                      

REVIEWS

     

“….sustains the tension… an impressive debut for documentary director John Walsh…confident and brave …Kubrick-like composition of each shot.”  - Mark Deming

 

 

“… fascinating period piece, John Walsh seamlessly merges historical fact and foreboding drama..… a sixteenth-century film noir. The film is anchored by T.P. McKenna’s brilliant, bellowing performance…”  - B. Peterson

 

             

“impressive debut for documentary director John Walsh… Walsh has managed to convey a grand story of a dying King in an intimate and poignant way, with a few chills along the way… I look forward to what John Walsh can next offer up"  -  Barry  Norman