Worth seeing movie but there are some significant problems - which are the fault of the director.
The positives: the film is absorbing with good performances, costumes and sets.
But a bunch of negatives, including some completely false presentation of history, particularly regarding Henry VIII's death.
This is unforgivable IMO.
And although the premise of the movie (based on a novel) is Catherine Parr as "feminist" queen, the movie inexplicably omits important information and context that actually illustrate her "feminist" achievements. For example no mention of her backstory (that she was twice a widow by the age of 31 when she was married to Henry VIII) and not clarifying her remarkable educational abilities and accomplishments including that she was fluent in Latin, French and Italian and the first woman in England to publish written work in English. Historians describe her as having good sense, moral rectitude, compassion, firm religious commitment, a strong sense of loyalty and devotion and embracing Henry's children Mary, Elizabeth and Edward.
There are also noticeable and distracting script and social behavior anachronisms - examples such as casual dialogue and contemporary language such as using the word "pregnant" instead of "with child"
Getting back to the director - a man, not British and Firebrand was his first English language film.
Hiring him as the director was a poor decision and disrespectful to the subject matter.
There would have been multiple other good choices - especially people with period piece experience such as Simon Curtis (Downton Abby), Tom Hooper (King's Speech), Stephen Frears.
