Diana: Last Days of a Princess (2007) (TV)

User Rating:

4.5/10   

Director:

Richard Dale

Writer:

Jenny Lecoat (writer)

Release Date:

30 July 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Cast

Genevieve O'Reilly	...	Princess Diana
Patrick Baladi	...	Dodi Al Fayed
Shaun Dooley	...	Trevor Rees Jones
James Barriscale	...	Kez Wingfield
Carlo Ferrante	...	Henri Paul
Nadim Sawalha	...	Mohamed Al Fayed
Wilfred Benaïche	...	Claude Rouiet
Charlie Manton	...	Prince Harry
Jake Taylor Shantos	...	Prince William
Simon Lenagan	...	Paul Burrell
Annabelle Wallis	...	Kelly Fisher (as Annabele Wallis)
Richard Clifford	...	Derek Deane
John Warnaby	...	Richard Kay
Bruno Ouvrard	...	Jean-François Musa
Annabel Mullion	...	Rosa Monckton

Runtime:

UK:120 min (including commercials)

Country:

UK

Language:

English | French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Filming Locations:

Halton House, Halton, Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Company:

Dangerous Films

A poor, unengaging drama about Diana that promises to be the first of many in the run-up to the a'sary of her death

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A TV docu-drama that tries to re-create the build-up to Diana's untimely death, from the beginning of her relationship with Dodi Al Fayed right up to her last night in Paris as she leaves the hotel for what will be her last journey, with contributions from those who became close to her as well as newspaper editors who were running the story at the time.

With the tenth anniversary of her death just round the corner, we can expect Diana mania to hit us very soon, with plenty more sub-standard pap like this to be on our TV screens. Like many other people, I can remember where I was when I heard she'd died and can remember the furore the country got caught up in immediately afterwards, so it brings back memories to re-live it again like this. But that, it would seem, is all there is.

This is just a cheaply put together television documentary, with no name actors playing the key roles, cheaply mixed with stock footage of Diana and all the numerous contributors who put their points forward. It's a long, sprawling affair, obviously just whipped out to cash in on the Diana frenzy that will be brewing up over the next month. People who are still obsessed with that kind of thing can take note of the endless books and articles that have been written about it, but, please, it would be nice if our TV screens had something more interesting on. *