Alicia Vikander and Jude Law at the FIREBRAND Tribeca Festival Screening

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Well, they went ahead and fired up another Henry VIII movie. Whenever a person from the UK observes that Americans have a bizarre fascination with the royal family, we like to note that it extends far beyond the current palace inhabitants. For every one Hollywood movie about a Spanish or Portuguese or Prussian king, there are thirty about some English-speaking royal, real or fictional. For every one film about a non-European royal, there are 30 on the Tudor line alone. It was ever thus. The largest, most powerful and influential entertainment machine in the history of the world is still working its way through its colonizer feelings. Whoops! Went on a tangent there. Let’s judge the looks of Firebrand stars Jude Law (Henry) and Alicia Vikander (Catherine Parr) at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere.

ALICIA VIKANDER IN LOUIS VUITTON
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We have a feeling this looks better in person. Under these lighting conditions, what should read as sparkly is instead reading as chintzy. The color story isn’t helping. That somewhat dingy yellow is working against the sparkle. The shape isn’t anything to write home about. And unless she’s planning on fighting the Witch King of Angmar, we’re not seeing the reason for that “bag.”

JUDE LAW IN BRIONI
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The top half and the bottom half of this outfit have nothing to do with each other. He looks like he’s wearing halves of two other outfits. The jacket and shirt make for a flattering and photogenic color combo. We might have recommended unbuttoning the shirt. But those gray pants do nothing for the jacket and the loafers feel like a lazy way of finishing the look off. We realize that gray is technically a neutral, but we honestly think he’d have been better off with an off-white or even, God forbid, a beige pair. As for the loafers, they’re just meh. Given the flair of the top half, we feel like a shoe with a little more oomph was called for.

ABOUT THE MOVIE:
In blood-soaked Tudor England, twice married, accomplished, and educated Katherine Parr (Vikander), reluctantly agrees to become the sixth wife of the tyrannical King Henry VIII (Law). Her consent to marry him carries great personal risk, given that her predecessors are either vanquished, beheaded, or dead. When Henry appoints her as Regent, the nation’s ruler during his absence when he departs to fight overseas, he lays a dangerous path for her. Henry’s courtiers, suspecting she’s sympathetic to radical Protestant beliefs that have taken root in the kingdom and are a threat to their power, scheme against her and cast doubts upon her fidelity to the increasingly ailing and paranoid King. Once Henry returns to England, his courtiers convince him to turn his fury on the nation’s radicals, including Katherine’s childhood friend Anne Askew, who becomes one of the scores of people convicted of treason and burned at the stake. Horrified and privately grieving, Katherine finds herself under ever-increasing scrutiny and suspicion. Knowing that even a whisper of scandal might lead to her downfall, Katherine must unleash her own scheme to fight for survival.

[Photo Credit: Janet Mayer/INSTARimages.com, Darla Khazei/INSTARimages – Video Credit: RoadsideFlix/YouTube]

• Alicia Vikander
• Festivals
• Jude Law
• Louis Vuitton
• Movie Premiere
• Red Carpet
• Tribeca Film Festival