Queen by alex haley5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() And that is what most surprises me: very few voters on IMDb and nobody has troubled to write a commentary (as of August 2001). Apart from 'North and South' (1985/1986) nothing else is comparable. ![]() OK: you need to get up, take a walk around the house during the commercials, make a pot of coffee, phone your mother-in-law and tell her what she is missing, take a cold shower around the 180 minute break, and so on but it is worthwhile. No not at all: this is a gripping and powerful production, masterfully portraying human feelings, suffering, joy. Alex Haley's 'Queen' - Full Cast & Crew 1993 -1993 1 Season CBS Drama TV14 Watchlist Where to Watch Alex Haley's saga about his ancestry tells the story of his grandmother, the daughter of a. Shown here on Spanish National Television (RTVE) in just one episode in the middle of the summer a few years ago: you might say 260 minutes (plus the advertisement breaks) for an epic saga is pure masochism. You will never see anything better by her. The gorgeous (any other adjectives, anybody?) Halle Berry enacts the best rôle of her life. Such that you feel you are right there with them in the tobacco plantations, enjoying and suffering throughout Queen's life her happy and anguishing moments. Queen is a mulatto her mother, Easter, is a black slave who does the weaving on the plantation, and her father, Jass, is the white massa of the plantation. This is a great slice of American history, beautifully filmed and with an extraordinary cast and excellent ambientation. One of those grandiose episodic films, in this case based on Alex Haley's mother Queen (Halle Berry) living through the traumatic experiences of the end of slavery. ![]()
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