As a Queen, has not seen the cinema. Splendid Regent of the interior, there was already abundant, and Helen Mirren as “The Queen” Cate Blanchett was Elizabeth I., Kirsten Dunst as Marie, the last of Saoirse Ronan as Mary Stuart. But this one, incredible: receding chin, roof of the face, grumpy, bossy, gout plagued.
Time, she keeps the ermine wraps up in a wheelchair the yard, and the front course in the English-French war of love, servant of the Schranzen explain to you is boring. Once you wehklagt because of their schwärend-bloody legs, to the ladies of the court try to ease the pain with a beef tenderloin Wrap. Time she stuffs pies in the footman with a silver amphora for the Royal stomach contents all the time. Olivia Colman as the Queen Anne is an event. Woe to those who stop this childish, frail woman for a weak Regent. Also simplicity can be a List.
So a power struggle and it was a long time since Stephen Frears’ “Dangerous liaisons” 30 years ago. Against what delivers the wars of Queen Anne with their two closest friends, Rachel Weisz as a lady-in – waiting and Advisor to Lady Sarah, and Emma Stone as a refined, scheming lady’s maid, Abigail, to the Psycho-and Political, are the power of today’s state battles, the heads of silly game. What relates to the toxicity of their spick-and-span ground of Dialogue and the art of political-erotic abuse of power, the three. “The Favourite” or who is the Best in the triumvirate? Sarah and Abigail, as it turns out, they are cousins – are competing for the favor of the Regent, that is to say: to your bed. Up to the last perfidy, to the very last Minute.
“The Favourite” is a clear Oscar favorite
this Film is an event. As a Triumph of women in a world of powerful men. As a re-birth of the costume film in contemporary guise, with powdered wig lacquer wear monkey velvet putzigem Rouge on the cheeks, with Camp – and Punk-bonds, Kubrick and Ken Russell reminiscences, blood orange Happening and grotesque Baroque music Arrangements to the harpsichord Version of an Elton John song. Very vulgar, very British. And as the happy arrival of the Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos on the Hollywood-parquet: With ten nominations, The Favourite is “” a clear Oscar favorite. The 45-Year-old is nominated as a Director, Colman, Weisz and Stone in the main and secondary actors.
Queen Anne has actually given to you is almost forgotten. Victoria, Elizabeth’s, all the famous. Anne reigned from 1702 to 1714, brought 17 children into the world, who died, without exception morning, her husband anyway. She United England and Scotland to the United Kingdom, concluded peace with France, established the Cabinet system with two parties that is still valid today. Not a bad government balance sheet for such a fate-stricken wife.
In Parliament is high – as it is today in the Brexit debate
Guarantee additionally that the Duke of Marlborough, fought for the English crown and his wife, Lady Sarah, the Queen stood closely to the side until they fell out over Anne. Because Sarah favored the Whigs (James Smith as the Earl of Godolphin), while the Queen sympathized with the Tories (Nick Hoult as Robert Harley). Who is amazed these days about the theatricality of the Brexit debate in the British house of Commons, can be experienced in “The Favourite” the historical precursor to such a stage of Mature Parliament feuds. At the time of the dispute to the doubling of the taxes turned. Because of the war. Then the insurgency, threatens the Tories say. Then we lose against France, scold the Whigs. And the Queen simulates a fainting.
What is probably not guaranteed historically. The Rest of this film, clearly, is a work of fiction. But what a. The original screenplay was written by Deborah Davis, her Script was completed by Tony McNamara. Every exchange of words, a duel, any remark to shoot targeted rifle shot – when Doves Abigail your cousin soon competition. The maid comes in with the Carriage in Kensington, impoverished, betrayed, your father has you selling in a card game. First of all, you will be pushed in the mud, and the service people are harassed, pleasure-sadistic and meticulously Yorgos Lanthimos registered in the pecking order when the kitchen staff. Abigail works at once to the top, to make the so-cunning as attractive Duchess of Marlborough, to the rank as the closest companion of the Queen in dispute. In the Royal bedchamber hausen 17 rabbits, for every dead child a: It is Abigail who sees their sense of value. “I like it when she sticks her tongue into me,” says Anne, a little later, about you and the cousins against each other. What Abigail does not stop marriage policy in their own right. She grabs one of the courtiers (Joe Alwyn), because of the Apanage.
Lanthimos rages: satirical, ultra-decadent
MeToo among women: The Sex as the ultimate means of power tops all audiences, horseback rides, ball, choreographies and goose – races. And who intrigue spins, is ahead of the opponent like in a chess game a few moves. As The Favourite “works” with überstolpernden and re-blending of scenes, the constant change of Perspectives and a clever, the audience, in turn, übertölpel the dramaturgy.
Yorgos Lanthimos employs in all his films with the perversions and Perfidien of the human species. Sober, he analyzed the rituals and rules, with which the pain, the desires and the violence held in check, first of all, in the crisis country Greece, meanwhile, in other crisis regions. In “Dogtooth” (2009) dealt with a Horror called the family, in the “Alpis” a mourning and froze in society, in “The Lobster” the bigotry of the love promise, in “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” (2017) to the hypocrisy of morality. Now, therefore, the policy – and return the love.
Rachel Weisz as Lady Sarah (on the left) and Olivia Colman as Queen Anne photo: Twentieth Century Fox
The Crazy thing: this Time, Lanthimos dispensed with stylized attempt allegories arrangements and cool, he rages, satirical, ultra-decadent, sweet-perfumed, bitter evil in Screwball fashion. And yet The Favourite touch””. Because Lanthimos has also made a Film about the loneliness of Power, over people, the calculus ask about your feelings and place them on the Altar of politics victims. About lost in huge, with tapestries and marble overloaded gloomy halls, fireplaces, vaults, intimidating wide corridors and lobbies, under the Gothic. The occasional fish-eye lens adds to the effect when the camera just slides elegantly through this Jacobean-style estate. Was filmed in Hatfield House in Hertfordshire, the since 15. Century is inhabited by the nobility.
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Andreas Busche
in The end, all have lost – but the Power was with them. What a price. Women are not better people. However, the equality of the sexes.
