Firebrand

As the sixth wife of the Catholic British monarch Henry VIII (Jude Law), the Protestant Catharine Parr (Alicia Vikander) tries to influence her husband, and thus the rest of the kingdom. When the sick and paranoid Hendrik returns from the battlefield, he increasingly loses his grip on reality and focuses his anger on (Protestant) radicals. When he even has Catharine's childhood friend Anne Askew executed, she fights in fear for her marriage, and at the same time for her own life. Firebrand offers a contemporary and feminist look at the palace intrigues of the Tudor era and the final years of the infamous King Henry VIII. Director Karim Aïnouz (The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao), together with actors Alicia Vikander (The Green Knight, Tomb Raider, The Danish Girl) and Jude Law (The New Pope, Sherlock Holmes, The Nest), brings this oppressive history back to life.