Hollywood crowns next month this King who did not want to rule The case is well under way. "The speech of a King" came in already with France prizes. Recently, the jurors of the Director's Guide of America Awards elected it best feature film of the year, what augurs well for the oscars, where Tom Hooper film truste not less 12 appointments. It is almost as "Titanic" in 1998 (14 nominations). But most importantly, the winners of the Director's Guide have six exceptions, always won the oscar in the wake.
Perhaps the film will appear too academic to the Mecca of cinema professionals. (For the Golden Globes, the jurors he also preferred "Social Network"). "The speech of a King" is an extremely classic invoice. But it is precisely what makes the charm. What happiness to see players like Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter and Guy Pearce (to name only a few) deploy the thousand and one facets of their talent. And who will be seized with emotion to the pain of the young King, pushed on the throne by the circumstances, must overcome his disability in a dramatic moment in the history

George VI (Colin Firth), father of the current Queen Elisabeth, seen here a girl should not reign but the abdication of his brother Edward VIII, in addition to the scandal that it causes, will change the situation. Indeed, Edouard abandons the throne to marry an American divorcee in addition. Idyll which ignites the gazettes, and even today remains one of the great romantic adventures of the last century, completely rejected the shadow George VI. The film of Tom Hooper, sensitivity and a beautiful dress, finally does justice to this prince who dreamed of a thing: live quietly in the company of his wife (Helena Bonham Carter) and two small daughters to which he liked to make visit the evening to show puppet, in the absence of tell them stories.
When George VI is found, the day the next day, forced to go to the 58 nations that make up the Commonwealth, it is reveals unable, stumbling on the words, shuttering phrases torn, enlisant in interminable silences. The stuttering of the King is all the more striking that, in the 1930s, radio became the media dominating - known to his role in the career of a certain Adolf Hitler. Ten years before, the King would not have been forced to address his subjects through a microphone. And ten years after, recording and editing techniques have helped hide his disability. But, it is, each time, the jump in vacuum. While the sounds of boots swollen in Europe, the people is appalled before this King charming who loves tennis - he even played at Wimbledon - but utterly silent.
Back to the wall, George will give his fate and that of democracy in the hands of a therapist of the Australian language also iconoclastic methods that brutal. Little by little, Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush) gets his royal patient progress, slow but real. Despite the respect that he must wear to George VI, it requires to dive deeper personality to analyze the reasons for his block (tutelary figure of the father, brother condescension). Even literature his rantings of swearing royally "trash". Off mic, of course...