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The King's Whore - "Was She Worth It???"
I think not!!! Ultimately, she cost him everything imaginable. True, he was obsessed with her and tried to manipulate her into this relationship. But no matter how it is presented, SHE was the one who made the decision to go to him. On the first night with him she was obviously more than cooperative, refusing the offer of a change of clothing and disrobing in front of him willingly. She seemed intent on using him to the max. You think their first encounter is blissful but you see the King's happiness begin to fade as she begins to outline her "requests"; she wants him to dismiss her husband's family from court, his minister she wants exiled, the home she shared with her husband she wants destroyed so no one else can ever live in it. You name it she asks him for it. He gives in to every one of her demands. We see her in his bed being coquetteish and manipulating him. Then when he makes overtures toward her, she becomes livid. He doesn't understand what is happening to him since he has never had nor wanted a mistress before. Now he finds himself consumed with his need for this woman to the point of striking her when she refuses his advances. (You just know this King has never struck a woman before in his life) But she's all he can think about; he needs to know where she is every minute. <
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>It becomes obvious this King does love her when she contracts smallpox. He takes total care of her, applying balms, bathing her, staying with her night and day to keep her from scratching herself so she won't be scarred for life. Still, this is definitely an unhealthy relationship. Women in those days married and had trysts with men who meant nothing to them all the time because they had no control over their lives. The men in charge (fathers, etc.) made those decisions for them and they followed whatever path was laid out for them. Doesn't mean it was right, but that is the way women were treated. Therefore, it is difficult to relate to her rage increasing as the relationship becomes more intense. She becomes as obsessed with getting free of hiim as he is with keeping her. This even seems to have become a love/hate kind of game between them. By now we are sure she loves him even though she is unwilling or unable to show it. Meanwhile, she is constantly given and accepts jewelry, art, clothing -- whatever she wants and then some, but does not give him any real pleasure in return as far as can be determined. This review is muddled I know but so are the emotions in this film. In the meantime, Timothy Dalton is absolutely gorgeous. Definitely at his peak in every way. I am not impressed with the Countess. I think she was miscast and not nearly pretty enough to have this obsesssion be believable... <
>Why do I love this film??? I don't know, but it doesn't matter, I do.

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Desperately depressing Dalton disaster
This is possibly the most miserable, gloomy film Timothy Dalton has ever made. He plays the King of Piedmont, who develops an inexplicable passion for a rather tiresome French countess. She, however, is devoted to her rather wet husband and wants nothing to do with the King, which shows from the beginning that she has deplorable taste. However, her husband's family want her to give into the King because he is making everyone's lives a misery moping about, and when in the end she realises even her husband wants her to give in to him, she agrees to become the King's mistress. She proceeds to revenge herself on her husband's family by having them banished to their family estate, but keeps her husband around to act as a lackey. Although the King is crazy about her, she still insists she doesn't love him, until in the end he loses his temper and gives her a black eye. While I don't in the least blame him, I feeel it would have made a more interesting scene if he had walloped her on a different portion of her anatomy. She persuades the King to get involved in a war with France, then gets ill with smallpox. Even after he has risked his life nursing her through the disease, the ungrateful bitch still doesn't love him, what a cow. Then she runs off with her wimpy husband, and the King is reduced to sniffing her underwear. It all ends miserably for everyone, in the pouring rain (it never seems to stop raining in Piedmont). I have no idea whether this preposterous film is based on true events, and if so how accurate it is, but the goings-on in Piedmont make the English monarchy look positively sane by comparison.

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What a shock as I was strolling through the DVD section...
I have been searching for this movie for a while now. The funny thing is the title seems to be "censored" for some silly reason. You see the actual title for this movie is "The King's Whore". Everytime I would search that title anywhere it came back as unavailable. If you search VHS on this site you can find it titled "The King's Whore". There is a video jacket pic as well that is almost identical to the DVD insert with the exception that the artwork is changed slightly. The funniest thing about this "censored" disc is when you open it the disc itself is titled "The King's Whore", what was the point in changing the name on the outside??? Anyway now you all know the true origin of this DVD. Go buy it and enjoy for Valeria Gorlino, who quite frankly is the only reason I was looking for this disc in the first place.