Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. Tonight: Colin Firth plays a king with speech impediments.
In 2007, director Tom Hooper heard from his mother about a play called The King’s Speech chronicling the stuttering problems of King George VI (the father of Queen Elizabeth II). He then decided to adapt this unknown story on the big screen, entrusting the writing of the screenplay to David Seidler, himself affected by this handicap. The result is an exciting film, mixing intimate and real facts, emotion and humor.
The story is carried by the remarkable performance of Colin Firth, who for the third time in his career slips into the skin of a stuttering character (this was the case in the play Three Days of Rain and the film A Month in the Country).
By his own admission, the actor this time focused on the heroic dimension of the monarch, who had to overcome his language difficulties to deliver, in September 1939, the radio address of the United Kingdom’s entry into the war against the Germany.
Winner of 4 Oscars and 7 BAFTAs (including those for Best Film), The King’s Speech is the best-rated work on AlloCiné – 4.3 out of 5 – among Tom Hooper’s filmography.
The speech of a king by Tom Hooper with Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, Derek Jacobi…
Tonight on 6ter at 9:05 p.m.