Queen Anna of great Britain, was pregnant 17 times. Sometimes, she gave birth just blood, sometimes a developed fetus. Some children lived a couple of days, but there never was any heir to the throne. The house of Stuart died out with her.
In the movie about her, the peerless ”The favourite”, the queen (Olivia Colman) ceased to hope for children. It is the beginning of the 1700s, and physical and mental ill-health has made the queen of dizzy and unstable – all this power weighs heavily on her drooping puffärmsprydda shoulders. She has a mantle and is carried around in a sedan chair but wants to be a child himself when she disappears further and further into the fog.
She may help to forget his duties of lady Sarah Marlborough (Rachel Weisz) as the robust control of the queen, away from everything troublesome. The sovereign need not read on, conduct public performances or make a decision.
who runs the country, and would do anything to keep the queen’s good graces and get her in a good mood. But with tjuvnyp and insults, she is still quite mean to her sad and lovelorn regent.
Lady Sarah’s attitude becomes a problem when her distant poor cousin Abigail (Emma Stone) turns up in the royal palace. She is a former noblewoman whose father played away the wealth, reputation and family. Abigail, he sold to a fat German in order to offset its liabilities, and now she is desperate, she need to get a roof over my head and food for the day.
Olivia Colman in ”The favourite”. Photo: Atsushi Nishijima
Abigail must use all the languages she learned, all the intrigue she heard about all the strategies she can to remain at the castle. A slow rumbling, and absolutely radiant of the greatest power struggle begins to take place between Sarah and Abigail.
The Greek Yorgos Lanthimos broke through with the indescribably and wonderfully peculiar ”Dogtooth” (2009). A brutal film about a family who locked their children in order to protect them from the world.
In ”Dogtooth” is a pastiche of a dance number from ”Flashdance”, I think of that dance when I see Lanthimos versions of the 1700-talsdans in ”The favourite”. They work in the film but does, of course, not at all. Anyway, I am thinking: oh, Well, clearly this was how you danced then.
to be a film by Lanthimos, this is he to film music and movement in a way that makes it feel like we’re on another planet.
the Replicas are 1700-talsmässiga but incorporates today’s wisdoms. We are at the English court, but sometimes it is as if Laurel and hardy make the visit to the palace. Every now and then it feels as if Stanley Kubrick made a break in the filming of ”2001: a space odyssey” to health.
the Fight between the women is dirty and miserable. Would be the story more tidy would Rachel Weisz role of the go to compare with Glenn Close’s ditto in ”Dangerous desires”. But no, they are actually quite different.
It feels as if Lanthimos finally managed to breathe new life into kostymfilmen. Even when the movies in the genre have been great, they have nevertheless often felt too rigid and alien.
Now suddenly understand I a 1700-talsregent and her rivals. And the fellas? So incredibly funny that it is men who hats around översminkade and in all the major wigs. While the women will be sharper and harder and smarter and more powerful.
This is a passionate love triangle has received ten academy award nominations and is worth every single one.
See more. Three other films of Yorgos Lanthimos. ”Alps” (2011), ”The lobster” (2015), ”The killing of a sacred deer” (2017).
