Charles & Camilla – Whatever Love Means
Picture: C
Sound: C+ Extras: D Telefilm: C+
Camilla Parker-Bowles will always be known as “the other
woman” between Prince Charles and the late Lady Diana. She will be blamed for her death almost as much
as the conspiracy theories pointing at The British Secret Service are. It amazes people outside of the U.K. that
after all this, she would be accepted as a future Queen or Lady Of England. Does she qualify as Baroness? Well, if those are your interests, the cable
TV film Charles & Camilla – Whatever Love Means (2005) is more
concerned with showing the persons at issue as real people.
That is god, but limiting. Not that this should become overtly political or just wild, but
it just has its limits and portraying the events so casually without asking
enough questions is a problem in obvious-to-profound ways. I give actors Lawrence Fox and Olivia Poulet
credit for humanizing the title characters, but it should be added that they do
their best to add where the teleplay does not.
The windup is a TV movie with some cable TV freedom, and little
else. It will be a curio down the line.
The 1.33 X 1 image is very hazy and sometimes difficult to
watch, with color issues and forget about any detail or illusion of
naturalness. It is hard to discern how
this was even shot, but it has to look better than this. The Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo has no
surrounds, despite being a recent recording.
There are no extras, but with these figures in the headlines al the time
and their personal lives out in the open, anyone who really wants to see this
will not be too bothered.
- Nicholas Sheffo
