★★☆☆☆ Adapted from the book of the same name, Mike Fraser's The Honourable Rebel (2015) draws on enough material to make it worthy of a 95 minute biopic. The eventful life and times of the right honourable Elizabeth Montagu - whose family home, Beaulieu Palace House, will be known to many a car enthusiast - should make for enthralling viewing. A highly intelligent, multi-lingual and frequently controversial aristocrat, she engaged in same-sex and heterosexual relationships, and acted as a spy during World War II.
- 12/8/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Hammy acting and direction hinder this docu-drama about the Hon Elizabeth Montagu – film industry fixer, loyal sister and spy
The Hon Elizabeth Montagu was the dashingly Mitfordesque aristocrat and adventuress who worked for British intelligence in continental Europe during the second world war, after which she made a glamorous, if little credited career as a screenwriter and fixer in British cinema for Alexander Korda before achieving micro-fame as the publicly loyal ally and confidante of her brother Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, when he was convicted in 1954 on a gay-sex charge.
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The Hon Elizabeth Montagu was the dashingly Mitfordesque aristocrat and adventuress who worked for British intelligence in continental Europe during the second world war, after which she made a glamorous, if little credited career as a screenwriter and fixer in British cinema for Alexander Korda before achieving micro-fame as the publicly loyal ally and confidante of her brother Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, when he was convicted in 1954 on a gay-sex charge.
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- 12/3/2015
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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