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Wolf Hall demonstrates just how easy it is to make a historical drama.

All that is necessary is a double award winning literary genius in Hilary Mantel, some of the finest actors on the planet, absorbed by their parts and a range of not just authentic but real historical locations.

Mark Rylance played a restrained, calculating, poker faced banker and made Cromwell come alive, the big difference between the Tudor banker and the modern variety is the sense of loyalty, duty and gratitude to his King that Cromwell felt, rather than the self interested greed which is common today.

Damian Lewis was Henry VIII. He had all the superficial charm, anger and determination of the original and we were privileged to watch the King age and mature, over the six episodes whilst keeping the driving passion to ensure the succession that we identify him with.

I was in tears at the execution of Anne Boleyn as much for the reassurance of Cromwell's hand on his son's arm as the bravery of the queen.

The direction and music were consistent, relevant and gifted.

We may never see its like again. Superb.

The characters were established early in the film and the acting, I thought, was superb, a few of the young children were clearly aware of the camera, but the acting was a million miles from wooden. Some of the devices and sub plots from TV shows like The Wire are kind of inevitable when the movie is dealing with a similar sub-culture. Although I am an English speaker who is fairly used to Irish accents, I found, not the accent, but the vocabulary and expressions of the protagonists quite hard to follow.

The story was well written and although it had a limited narrative,it was, almost like a documentary, able to describe the community quickly and the main players were put into context simply by showing authority and deference,a nice touch. There is an inevitability about this type of tale and most of tension comes from waiting to see how and who is responsible for the denouement. I will have to watch it a few more times to follow the dialogue but as I love Irish films, for me, it will be an investment worth making.

How many times a day are you really you? And if you you are really you, do you know what you would look like? Do you know how you would feel? Do you know what you would do? And when you have finished with that area of thought, you then have to decide whether everything you do has been dictated by fate or maybe there is some kind of divine guiding hand or simply chaos. This film is really looking at the notion that all the world is a stage and is asking if there is a director and if there is, then who or what is the director. Nicely French and Kylie too. If we peel back the layers of our constructed identity what would we find? If you love Paris, you can't go wrong. A really good attempt to display a very abstract set of ideas, a unique film.