Spencer — Review Thread

Titane isn't playing over here but this is. Guess who's watching this tomorrow?

Are you posting from the theater?

I had just gotten out when I posted that.

You’ll watch it when they have the audacity to nominate Kristen Stewart for Best Actress at the Academy Awards.

You weren’t riveted when she danced like a mental patient?

Your favorite scene must have been when she ate the pearl necklace.

Got my hands on a screener of this puppy.

I guess we'll just have to give this a go, won't we?

Christmas came early this year.

Spencer(11/13/2021)
I can’t say I was overly excited about the new Princess Diana themed film Spencer as I’d pretty much got my fill of that story from season four of “The Crown” but the fact that it was directed by Pablo Larraín was enough to get me in the door given how successful he was at helming the similarly themed Jackie. The film is set in the December of 1991 when Diana is estranged from Prince Charles but not yet divorced and is arriving at one of the Queen’s estate to spend Christmas with the family. The film has been described as “a fable from a true tragedy,” which is to say its account of this particular weekend is basically fiction but it’s trying to act as an authentic psychological portrait of its subject. It is not, however, an entirely flattering portrait. In fact I must say that much of the film’s first half kind of had me rooting second guessing my sympathy for this woman as she proceeded to walk all over her servants and wallow in self-pity over what are ultimately a lot of first world problems. The film also kind of assumes its audience will come into the film knowing a lot about Diana ahead of time and if it weren’t for “The Crown” (which just so happens to have left off last season right where this film picks up) I think I may have been a bit lost. However, the movie did start to win me back in its second half when it became increasingly clear that what it was depicting was something more akin to clinical depression than wealthy self-pitying and I started to vibe a bit more with some of the techniques it employed started to come together a bit better. This movie is nothing like as good as Jackie, which is a movie that just had a lot more going on both above and beneath the surface and just generally interested me more but this isn’t a terrible companion piece. I’m curious to see if Larraín finds a third sad woman of the 20th Century to make a movie about and turn this into a trilogy.
*** out of Five

Oh no. I divorced my rich husband whom I never loved to begin with.

I'm trying to work out whether my mom would like or hate this movie.  I have a feeling she'd be one of the people going in thinking 'oh golly, a movie about the life of Princess Di.'  And then she's get whispering Stewart with a weird jazz music score.