The official Danish Best Foreign Language Film Oscar entry, A Royal Affair charts the story of a passionate and forbidden love triangle that has consequences for an entire nation. Gorgeously photographed if familiarly constructed, the film is more or less catnip for urban foreign film aficionados and the NPR set, breathing life into period piece lust and intrigue, and in the process destabilizing stuffy notions of what monarchial drama entails. For the full, original review, from ShockYa, click here. (Magnolia, R, 138 minutes)