![]() If you're familiar with Jackie, and it's a great movie that I would recommend, then Spencer feels very similar in subject and approach. Spencer is Lorrain's latest is prime Oscar-bait as Kristen Stewart (Happiest Season) slips into playing the people's princess during a fictionalized Christmas retreat with the royal family. She was a figure of fascination, idealization, and pity, and the question always remained how well anyone ever truly knew this woman on her terms.Įnter Chilean director Pablo Larrain, best known for 2016's Jackie, which attempted to untangle another complicated woman in conflict with the ownership of her image and identity. Diana pushed back against the overbearing influence of her powerful in-laws until her tragic end in 1997 fleeing from paparazzi in pursuit. Prince Charles continued seeing his real beloved, Camilla Parker Bowles, a divorced woman that the royal family had (allegedly) forbidden Charles from marrying. Except Diana Spencer's real experiences were far from a dream. It seemed like a dream come true, a childhood wish to be chosen from obscurity by a prince and elevated into a privileged world of wealth and power. Her 1981 wedding was watched by over 750 million people worldwide. People have been fascinated by Princess Diana since her storybook ascent from ordinary woman to being princess of England. It's now playing in select theatres and available on-demand. ![]() I can see many people finding this film boring, as not much happens, but it really came down to the look of the film, the fantastic central performance, and dialogue that surprisingly hooked me. They are very similar in feel, but I think everything about Spencer is an improvement over that film. It made sense to me when I noticed that director Pablo Larraín, who directed this film, also directed the film, Jackie, back in 2016. With that said, I have to admit that it's a very well-made film. Overall, Spencer isn't going to be one of my absolute favourite films of the year, but I honestly think that's just because these types of movies don't appeal to me all that much. ![]() I never thought a film like this would grab my attention as it did. The way the camera captured the openness of the world around Diana, while still making the film feel confined with the excessive amounts of close-ups (in a good way), I was glued to the screen. ![]() Even though there is a lot of good in this film, the cinematography was the largest standout to me. The very fact that the grainy look over the entire film made it look like a movie that was made in the 90s, but with a much crisper image and wonderful cinematography. I can usually always tell or get distracted by who is on-screen.Īlthough taking place in the 90s, Spencer still looked to me like it would feel like a period piece set in the 60s or 70s, but I was very wrong. There were multiple scenes where I forgot I watch watching Kristen Stewart and I don't say that about many performances. She was capable of delivering a very, very good performance in that film and now with Spencer, she has proven that she has grown as an actress. Well… when the film Happiest Season came out last year, I began to second guess myself. ![]() Films like Into the Wild or The Runaways gave her some nice material to work with, but nothing ever jumped out at me that she could be amazing. A film that relies solely on a performance can easily crumble if the outcome isn't great, but I can gladly say that this is the best performance Kristen Stewart has ever given and may ever give in her career.īeginning in films like Panic Room as a child and eventually breaking out in the franchise everyone knows, Twilight, I could never put my finger on why her performances just weren't working for me. Resorting to the physical harm of herself due to her confinement with no way out, this film dives deep into the mental state of this real-life figure in the 1990s. She desperately wants out of this life and the perfection of it all. Princess Diana (Kristen Stewart) is very unhappy with the fact that she will one day become the Queen. There isn't much to give away about this story here. I must say, the slow pace of this film will not work for others, but I found that all the filmmaking aspects, along with the performances, are truly what kept my eyes on the screen. Having known the basic details of the story and having at least a brief understanding of this family's history, I was at least intrigued to give it a watch. Spencer is the prime example of a film like this that surprisingly really worked for me. A character study set in the past with a lot of long sequences of characters talking about things I'm very unfamiliar with usually doesn't click in my mind unless it feels different. Films of this nature usually aren't all that appealing to me. ![]()
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