Stephen Frears: "I'm Not a Monarchist, but Elizabeth II Was Clearly an Extraordinary Woman"

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The first film that Stephen Frears (Leicester, 1941) saw in the cinema, when he was very young, was Walt Disney's Pinocchio. "When the whale swallowed him they had to take me out of the cinema, it scared me a lot", recalls the director of Dangerous Liaisons and The Queen, one of the great masters of British cinema. A versatile director with a sense of humour and a genuine interest in people and their stories, Frears receives the Premi d'Honor de…