The Favourite reviewed by Mark Kermode

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5 жыл бұрын

Mark Kermode reviews The Favourite. Two cousins engage in deception and political wrangling as they vie for favour with Queen Anne.
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@ellenspear50 4 жыл бұрын

The very strange dance sequence signaled most strongly that what we're seeing is not firmly set in the historical time. It was hilarious.

@wendellwiggins3776 2 ай бұрын

A lot it was tragic

@GernickKuik 5 жыл бұрын

Olivia Coleman. is astonishing in this film. I felt for her so much. This is a great film.

@JamesHarris-hl2bm 4 жыл бұрын

Yes she is and deserved to win the Oscar, but see her in Tyrannosour. That is Olivia at her best.

@comanchio1976 4 жыл бұрын

@James Harris Agreed. I was blown away by how realistic and heart wrenching her performance was.

@maximyles 3 жыл бұрын

@@helvete_ingres4717 the film quietly exposed all three. Emma was presented as a vile character but towards the ending you start to see breaks in her character, and at the end whilst she’s rubbing Olivia’s leg with obvious shame, your reminded that her motivation for her villainy is the fact she was used in the past. Rachel’s character seemed so sturdy, yet when power was snatched from her you could see how desperate she was to claim it back, kind of exposing this need for control in her but she also maintained her pride unlike the other two. This movie is great

@maximyles 3 жыл бұрын

@@helvete_ingres4717 oh I’m gonna watch the heck out of that movie, thanks for the recommendation

@wendellwiggins3776 2 ай бұрын

I felt the film was tragic but didn't feel much for her since she seemed to not care about much most of the film. By the time of her socialist enlightenment I was completely detached and what happened at the end did little to change that.

@Kinography 5 жыл бұрын

The use of the fisheye lens was wonderful. It called to mind skate videos, which is as antithetical to the prestige costume drama as you can get. It’s a big visual clue that that’s not what you’re going to get, and instead something, “cruelly contemporary.” A great description.

@tatehildyard5332 5 жыл бұрын

Kinography 1994 I thought those lenses were about expanding the space to make it look grotesque and entirely divorced from reality (which life in her court was).

@Kitsua 5 жыл бұрын

I personally hated the fish-eye lens and felt it detracted from an otherwise good film.

@gordygibson4558 5 жыл бұрын

@@Kitsua - the movie is about OUR (the favOURite ) contemporary instagrammable world in which mindless nobodies rise to influence the powerful yet unqualified elite based solely on hysterically childish likes.

@compulsiverambler1352 2 жыл бұрын

@@Kitsua The makers said the visual style was designed to make the royal and noble characters look lonely and trapped in the huge imposing palace at the same and vulnerably exposed and self-conscious to the gaze of their colleagues and servants as they walk around. I find it works for me but I understand why some people don't like it.

@the57bears 5 жыл бұрын

'Gallivanting around being fops' has got to be my favourite sentence of the week.

@david.hirsch4235 5 жыл бұрын

Fops were actually immensely vicious and well-trained individuals masquerading behind 'fluff' - revisit Lord Ludd "Barry Lyndon" ..... and Boy did they know how to wield a sword! Ditto "Dangerous liaisons".

@jmwilliams88 5 жыл бұрын

Mark is very good at picking up the visual allusions to classic storybook iconography. I wouldn't have thought of an Alice in Wonderland comparison for this film (just as I didn't pick up on the Beauty and the Beast imagery in Phantom Thread) but it really fits. To survive in Queen Anne's court one would have to be as Mad as a Hatter.

@Mel1lvar 5 жыл бұрын

This is better than Mary queen of scots in every conceivable way, if you're going to watch a period drama in the new year then let it be this one.

@WildwoodClaire1 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, this film is infinitely better than Mary, Queen of Scots, which is just about as close to history as Cheez-Whiz is to actual cheese. In short, Mary Queen of Scots manages to be cheesy without offering any nutritional value.

@optimisticwhovian1726 5 жыл бұрын

Doubt Ill see either of them, this one looks plain stupid and Mary Queen of Scots has Margot Robbie really straining to lose her Australian accent. Think I'll pass on both of them.

@JamesHarris-hl2bm 5 жыл бұрын

Mary Queen of Scots with Glenda Jackson and Vanessa Redgrave was excellent. The new version is horrible and such a waste given the talent in it.

@optimisticwhovian1726 5 жыл бұрын

Obvioulsy that's what I meant settle down idiot @yeah, right

@optimisticwhovian1726 5 жыл бұрын

To me its a sign of the times that such large historical roles are being played by fairly lightweight actors (with all due respect to Robbie she might be fine in modern day films but a historical piece requires a lot more gravitas). I am Australian myself but I wouldn't have have casted Margot Robbie Aussies cant be playing royals really unless youre an expert at accents (which Robbie isn't really) its never going to wash. Rachel Weisz is fine for this she has the weight for drama but I duno Olivia pulls it off completely I think they got her cos they were going the comedy route and Olivia's career with the exception of Broadchurch has mainly been comedy, again she isn't really heavy enough for a royal. But there's so few actresses these days of the calibre of Judi Dench that they had to go with someone and since Olivia's career has been comedy based and they wanted to go the comedy route they thought she was a perfect fit. @@JamesHarris-hl2bm

@EctothermalPuppy 5 жыл бұрын

I loved this one. I liked his previous films but this one is my.....wait for it....favourite so far.

@EzeICE 5 жыл бұрын

Heeeey! I see what you did there. Very good, very very goodie good good. Right, right?? Right, right!!

@realboinger 5 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed this film for the second time yesterday. This time I noticed that the “scrapy violin” occurs with Queen Anne and her pain. If you’ve ever had to just live through horrible pain with no relief except its passing on its own, this is exactly what happens in your head, in time with your heartbeat. So, when you see Queen Anne, you feel her incessant pain and you can sympathise. Because, as Olivia Coleman said, her pain informs herself. She’s just surviving pain constantly and that would make anyone at least erratic. In short, excellent use of the “scrapy violin”, of the soundtrack as a whole, actually. Scrapy violin and absence of are equally important.

@moneycannotbeeaten 5 жыл бұрын

Genius film. Political and historical satire with brilliant feminist and tragic comedy themes throughout.

@Avratin 5 жыл бұрын

@@lcoyle1998 How is it sexist? To whom is it sexist?

@Avratin 5 жыл бұрын

@@lcoyle1998 I didn't find it sexist at all. I don't think by portraying unattractive traits in its lead women that the movie is sexist, those women are bad, dont feel it is saying anything about females in general.

@morgancockram9833 5 жыл бұрын

Luke Coyle there are many films with incompetent and immature men in the lead roles, I highly doubt you’d call those films sexist, would you?

@ijeleo92 5 жыл бұрын

Yorgos is becoming one of my favourite directors. His films are so beautifully thematic. They’re odd and funny and jarring and he keeps using my most beloved actors in his film!

@kumaridesilva 5 жыл бұрын

the dance scene was awesome - I loved this film

@HolisticHealthWithHarry 5 жыл бұрын

Uyep :)

@CinemaStudies 5 жыл бұрын

Walked out of this film uncertain of how I felt. But it’s been a splinter in my mind. I just can’t stop thinking about it. It’s incredibly well crafted. I need to see it again before I make a final decision. I definitely like it more the more it sits with me.

@danyl123 5 жыл бұрын

Next time don't walk out! ;)

@TomRipley7350 5 жыл бұрын

When will you reach your final decision? I'm on the edge of my seat here.

@ctrlaltdelete200390 5 жыл бұрын

I suspect just like the Lobster, you expected it to be laugh out funny based on the trailer, but it wasn't. It's deeper than that

@powerliftingcentaur 5 жыл бұрын

Josh, I hated this hellish film peopled by the damned. It’s really ok to reject it. I should have walked out myself. It is a film of great art but created towards what purpose. I shall find my meaningful experience somewhere else.

@margaretmcgarry7796 5 жыл бұрын

Josh Wingard You need to get out more

@Rev1205 5 жыл бұрын

"...yeah but why do I have to suffer?" Simon, never change.

@luisfedericosala1354 5 жыл бұрын

Colman, Stone and Weiz are all of them, amazing in this film. Bravo.👏👏👏👏🌺🌹🌷😍

@Wheel333 5 жыл бұрын

I unfortunately missed this at the weekend but my Mum went to see it and was a little shocked by the characters language and behaviour, but she said she didn't mind the fingering. Too much information Mum .o_O.

@plodmama 5 жыл бұрын

I have a point to add, fwiw, - he says "what happens within their personal relationships has repercussions..." I think (as a historian said but i can't remember who) that the women in real life were motivated by their politics, Sarah for the Whigs (in power at the time), Abigail for the Tories. And i think this makes sense within the film narrative too. It's not just personal, at least for Sarah, who does actually know/did know politics. Also, the men may seem irrelevant and the women have power but don't forget there is a reason that Sarah doesn't speak in the chamber - as a woman she has no official capacity in the political realm, she can only influence the monarch who has ultimate power. And Abigail can only use her sexual attraction and charisma to manipulate the men and, to some extent, the queen.

@WildwoodClaire1 5 жыл бұрын

I hope that the three principal actresses are honored for their performances and that the film also wins an award for its stunning cinematography.

@margaretmcgarry7796 5 жыл бұрын

Loved it the three main females were brilliant. It is black comedy with a dash of tragedy. Coleman was amazing as usual . She deserves an Oscar

@NxDoyle 4 жыл бұрын

Olivia Colman is proof that you can deliver a superlative-defying performance without 'method' or hyper-research. If the storyteller tells the story well, the actor only needs the story.

@Windupchronic 5 жыл бұрын

Loved this movie. Just got back from seeing it, and definitely going to see it again.

@WildwoodClaire1 5 жыл бұрын

Perhaps the most depressing thing about this film is that it is surprisingly close to the actual history. The lesbian relationships are a bit of a stretch but not implausible and, as a matter of fact, the Duchess of Marlborough (Sarah Churchill) spread catty rumors about the relationship between the queen and Abigail Masham. The grotesque fashions of Queen Anne's court, especially men's fashions, are mercilessly skewered. One looks back in astonishment at the clownish exteriors of the peerage at that time.

@JillSaville 5 жыл бұрын

I agree. I am wondering if we need to give more liberty to men to wear what they wish and be who they are today.

@macman8057 5 жыл бұрын

Enjoyed the film but did feel it was 30 mins too long. The funny parts were brilliant and the acting was amazing :). Awards well deserved

@laburgy 5 жыл бұрын

I would of enjoyed another hour. A wonderful film for women to enjoy. I have spent far to many hours being bored by "boy's films" XXX

@Luvie1980 5 жыл бұрын

I love this movie...so much better than these overhyped movies

@username4570 5 жыл бұрын

For my money this is a perfect film. Yorgos is a genius who keeps on improving and it is so exciting to be witnessing it live

@aclark903 5 жыл бұрын

Have to say haven't seen it yet. But the character assassination of historic royal personages with no regard to historical accuracy merely for entertainment seems a little low.

@username4570 5 жыл бұрын

@@aclark903 I'm sorry you feel that way. I saw it as a film, the truth of it never crossed my mind. If that is your motivation for watching though I would advise you to stay clear or reassess why you watch films.

@joebaker1 5 жыл бұрын

@@aclark903 We shouldn't pretend that the monarchs of the past were all saintly. Some of them were appalling. The Favourite is a wonderfully entertaining film. It's so creatively put together that no one will confuse it with a documentary.

@aclark903 5 жыл бұрын

@@joebaker1 Not claiming Queen Anne was a saint. She doesn't deserve this either.

@username4570 5 жыл бұрын

A Clark I'm glad the world doesn't share your view. It's a wonderful film and I'd be sad if we were denied it. No one will walk out of it thinking it accurately represents history, that's very clearly not the point.

@gisawslonim9716 5 жыл бұрын

All I have ever known of Queen Anne is that she lent her name to a certain style of furniture and of course to Queen Ann's Lace, a lovely and lacy white flower that grows wild in Britain as well as most of Europe.

@eme.261 4 жыл бұрын

"I'm out of cliches. I'm sorry." Mark Kermode 😂😂

@reservoirdude92 5 жыл бұрын

Yorgos Lanthimos is a filmmaker who specializes in films that capture the most mundane aspects of society and human nature, twisting those elements into something (seemingly) cold and distant, unexpectedly (and surprisingly) violent, and dryly (yet amazingly) hilarious. I haven't seen it yet, but I truly believe (based on my love of the work of Lanthimos) that The Favorite will be a film to beat this year, and well beyond early next year.

@knowingtoomuch666 5 жыл бұрын

From the clip of the movie itself makes me want to see this movie. I won't miss it, for sure.

@apinanthimtong2218 5 жыл бұрын

Its been 9 hours now since I saw this film,and I am still thinking about it. Iike it or not,it was a remarkable film

@foodoo80 5 жыл бұрын

James is i I agree. Beautiful and haunting.

@893loses 5 жыл бұрын

So pumped for this movie

@luisfedericosala1354 5 жыл бұрын

I watched this film four times. It happened to me the same, with Black Swan.

@darthnagus5457 5 жыл бұрын

Imperious is a good word. I need to use imperious more often.

@pauielicious4433 3 жыл бұрын

As much as Sarah's love is honest, you wouldn't say it's the kind of love you would instantly feel loved and supported. Actually, it's the kind of love you would recognized "love" when you experienced something lower. I guess at the end of the day, there's a crucial balance of honesty and tenderness for a better communication of one's love.

@jonathanb1406 5 жыл бұрын

I thought Simon overstated the bit of music that apparently wound him up so much. I heard this review before seeing it and was expecting it to be like the music that plays in the second half the trailer recurring throughout it, but it was the quieter part of that track.

@NeoLithiumCat 5 жыл бұрын

It seems to me that whether or not people enjoyed this film depends on what they were expecting. If they'd seen the trailer or they were expecting a standard period drama, it's the opposite of that. In fact, it's all about undermining that style and critiquing the period's absurd political norms. If you're going into it expecting experimental film making, it fulfils that on a really high level. I went into it knowing nothing but the director's previous work and loved it. If I'd been expecting a by-the-numbers film, I'm sure I would have been profoundly wrong-footed and unsettled.

@stephenprendergast6939 5 жыл бұрын

I hear it's the favourite to win best picture.

@midnightrambler3653 5 жыл бұрын

Well Oscar best pictures usually aren't very good.

@HolisticHealthWithHarry 5 жыл бұрын

Agree! :)

@TheMikenanners 5 жыл бұрын

midnight rambler Birdman 4

@stephenprendergast6939 5 жыл бұрын

@@TheMikenanners nice profile pic.

@sourabhmanhar5637 5 жыл бұрын

Sorry for what happened.

@aldiergreen 2 жыл бұрын

"But why do I have to suffer?" resumes what I think about Yorgos Lantimos films. I´ve seen them all many times, voluntarily.

@alphabetaxenonzzzcat 4 жыл бұрын

This reminded me a bit of both The Draughtsman’s Contract and Barry Lyndon. I actually don’t think the film worked. Also - can’t understand the plaudits for Coleman - in my opinion, Weisz’s pretty much has the most important role.

@chrishiggins7166 Жыл бұрын

The film’s terrifically acted, stylish, well written, well directed, well scored & is A very well crafted biopic. (86%) (4.5/5 stars) (positive)

@YouHaveBeenWatchingFilms 5 жыл бұрын

Saw this the other day. Olivia Colman is a treat going through such a wide range of emotions so quickly but effortlessly, when she's on screen it's never a dull moment. The film is never dull at all though, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz have a cleverly manipulative game they play - they're so intense and everyone has ulterior motives. Genuinely thrilling film, I wish I could write razor sharp dialogue like that.

@Comakino 5 жыл бұрын

"Draughtman's Contract meets Bound" - I'm down to see that movie

@HolisticHealthWithHarry 5 жыл бұрын

Its a great movie :)

@BP-kx2ig 5 жыл бұрын

See Olivia Coleman in 2012 - BBC comedy about the London Olympics. She is brilliant

@regbollocks8939 4 жыл бұрын

2012 is probably the funniest thing I've ever seen. Olivia is, as always, brilliant in that too

@Ben-nr2rm 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant brilliant brilliant

@amanjaiswal9389 5 жыл бұрын

What was the purpose of the fish eye lens that were used in so many scenes in the film?What do they imply?

@francois928 4 жыл бұрын

Aman Jaiswal isolation

@travispickle2147 5 жыл бұрын

Must the duck be here? 😂

@josephinewinter 5 жыл бұрын

they made us protestant! How do you not know this? Very important!

@apinanthimtong2218 5 жыл бұрын

That clip is the only mainstream comedy in it.its much darker and art house than the trailer. I liked it for many reasons.Its one that sticks in your head but I took my 70 year old mother to it and she hated it almost more than is humanely possible

@turnedaround4954 5 жыл бұрын

All three actresses were amazing. Olivia is the best of them though her accent brought her score down slightly for me. Overall a special movie I will watch again for years to come

@schmoab 5 жыл бұрын

I saw the trailer at least a dozen times when seeing other movies. It shows almost every key scene. This diminished my experience of the film. The performances were absolutely excellent, even though the otherwise straightforward story was made quite fuzzy (furry) in the end by Yorgos.

@mattkemerait 4 жыл бұрын

This movie deserved best picture over Green Book by a mile. Near flawless execution.

@nick_malone 4 жыл бұрын

You're my ballast Mark

@hilaryc8648 5 жыл бұрын

A good film with three good leads. For my money Weiss edges it and had the most complex character to portray. Liked the rabbits - why not? However I found the music heavy handed (I was getting an augmented Greenaway feel) and I feel the fish eye or 360 or whatever it was, and I got what they going for, was overused to the point where it started to feel hammy. It does feel a couple of reels too long but on the whole I'd recommend it for the performances.

@bebaguette766 5 жыл бұрын

I haven't enjoyed Lathimos' films, but this looks like a perfect fit for me.

@petermuller7079 5 жыл бұрын

Does ANYBODY enjoy Lathimos' films? ;-) I really LOVE them ... but it's really not entertainment und 'enjoying' doesnt fit my emotions....

@Bababouka 5 жыл бұрын

It’s the first Lanthimos film which I’ve liked... maybe because he didn’t write it himself

@midasbaijense8379 5 жыл бұрын

@@petermuller7079 The Killing Of A Sacred Deer might just be the funniest movie I've ever seen

@tatehildyard5332 5 жыл бұрын

I’ve enjoyed all of the ones I’ve seen so far. The only one I haven’t seen is The Alps.

@GetBaesEveryday 5 жыл бұрын

I’m the same way. Never saw the lobster. And I saw The Killing of a Sacred Deer and (I’m sorry) HATED it. This movie however is SO GOOD. My favorite of the year! No pun intended.

@Malky5279 5 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed the three leads performances. Olivia Coleman probably does steal the show. It held my attention, I was amused where I think I was meant to be and empathised with and was repulsed by the 3 character's at different times. I was a bit bemused by the ending with the rabbit imagery merging with the final scene between Olivia Coleman and Emma Stone.

@Phaedra389 5 жыл бұрын

I definitely was divided between sympathising and disliking the 3 leads. They were all horrible in part and all likeable and vulnerable in part.

@Scarletbanned 5 жыл бұрын

what did the rabbit imagery mean to you tho? that no matter how much power you attain, you can still feel weak and helpless? that goddamn rabbit symbolism is messin with me lol

@Malky5279 5 жыл бұрын

In the moment I was nonplussed and mostly I could only think that it was going to seriously annoy my partner who isn't as keen to go see films as much as myself and I was thinking she is going to hate this ending immensely and add this to a not insubstantial list she bears something of a grudge for me making her go see.

@josephinewinter 5 жыл бұрын

i loved olivia colman when she was in that comedy and everyone else didn't know who she was, sometimes i'm right!

@optimisticwhovian1726 5 жыл бұрын

in what comedy? She's done a lot of comedy, you mean Peep Show?

@Phaedra389 5 жыл бұрын

@@optimisticwhovian1726 I assume it is Green Wing. Olivia Coleman was a typist/assistant to Joanna Clore (Pippa Haywood) mad head of admin. The running gag was Olivia Coleman was always pregnant and losing/forgetting her children.

@thecreaturesofhabit1848 5 жыл бұрын

Wide angle lens is a ‘fish eye’ lens

@zetareticuli1904 4 жыл бұрын

Olivia Coleman, wistfully very good at being embarrassed at things.

@DandyLion662a 5 жыл бұрын

I always find Kermode's reviews interesting even if I dislike some of the films he likes, and vice versa. In this case, while I often enjoy historical dramas, praising a film for being "cruelly contemporary" gives me pause. Probably something to rent/stream/download rather then seeing it in the cinema.

@randomman4797 5 жыл бұрын

DandyLion662a please go and see it you won’t regret it!

@troygaspard6732 11 ай бұрын

I enjoyed this dark comedy. Stone's character gets what she wants, but the last imagine in the film with her looking up at the Queen... Be careful for what you wish.

@TheWaynos73 7 ай бұрын

The Favourite was deeply fked up. I felt confused and challenged. I loved it.

@angelicvixen 5 жыл бұрын

I just loveeeeeeeeeed this movie :)

@HolisticHealthWithHarry 5 жыл бұрын

Best film of 2019

@xtcfucker 5 жыл бұрын

The film is quite(!) magnificient.

@david.hirsch4235 5 жыл бұрын

A 'period' "The Devil Wears Prada" and / or an extended Jennifer Saunders ~ Dawn French sitcom ...... It has absolutely NOTHING to do with the actual Historical Characters, but does provide great laughs ... Cole is a 'discovery' [close to Dawn French though]. If you're looking for 'Barry Lyndon' - don't. Immense liberties are taken with the period, dialogue and characters.

@Stonehengoo 5 жыл бұрын

Yup, I wanted it to be Barry Lyndon but it isn't. I still haven't seen it.

@spikeep6141 5 жыл бұрын

It was Kubrickian. A perfect compliment to the SECOND half of Barry Lyndon (the good half).

@NeoLithiumCat 5 жыл бұрын

Yes it reminded me of that. Similar level of craft and a similar sense of commentary on a period setting rather than the typical obsession with absolute accuracy. Both films have a definite opinion on their subject matter and both express the problems with having absurd levels of power in that period

@chrisgrant5896 5 жыл бұрын

thelithiumcat I don’t think it does have similar levels of craft. Also don’t feel Kubrick’s film offers a definite opinion - part of its brilliance. But they are set in a similar period.

@RhodesidesReviews 4 ай бұрын

I think Kubrick gives us so much to make our own minds up on, whereas the favourite is quite blatant in its messaging

@spikeep6141 4 ай бұрын

@@RhodesidesReviews Really? What •is• it’s “Messaging”?

@RhodesidesReviews 4 ай бұрын

@@spikeep6141 Complexity of women, futility of male posturing, fragility of those we hold in high regard, being at the top isn't always worth striving for

@shanehaynes4896 5 жыл бұрын

I thought this film was excellent, I love Olivia Colman, Rachel Weiz and Emma Stone also very good, I have to admit if I did not own an unlimited card I would have waited for it to arrive on Film 4, always thought the trailer looked good, but as I have never been a fan of pompous period dramas I was still not sure, the guy wanking in the carriage and the explanation from the maid as to why the mud smells funny got me hooked. 8/10

@Johonnac 5 жыл бұрын

Shane Haynes I missed what the maid said about the mud?

@MrMerseyblue 5 жыл бұрын

I wish I could watch films like Mr Kermode. When I watch a film I'm like yeah that was great but I don't see films like him. I enjoy or dislike but never sure why. At least not like he does.

@NxDoyle 4 жыл бұрын

Olivia Colman is just so good.

@oliver91ist 4 жыл бұрын

Cruelty commentary very true Mark especially since it’s postmodern, all the clothes despite their period appearance are in fact denim and leather and the dance is a mashup of Voguing and period moves. It’s the polished cousin to Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette

@cliveosullivan9934 5 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed this film a lot but the very end spoilt it for me a little.

@louisericketts6738 5 жыл бұрын

So glad Simon is still on the BBC but will really miss him on The Drivetime show. All because of the BBC's "we know best attitude".

@mistressbrindello 5 жыл бұрын

If you only has one word to sum up this film it would be 'bonkers'!

@divyenjoshi1168 5 жыл бұрын

Can someone please tell me so badly if this was supposed to be slightly square? Because I just watched it at the cinema and it didn't fill the whole screen, I'd love to know if it was supposed to be like this because something felt off.

@WillOrr1 5 жыл бұрын

I noticed this, presume it must be a stylistic choice or because of the fish eye lenses used

@cush6827 5 жыл бұрын

The miscarriages and dead children of queen Anne were horrible, no wonder she was depressed all the time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne,_Queen_of_Great_Britain#Pregnancies

@alexiswalmsley6203 5 жыл бұрын

The Sense of Heft.

@jonathant4201 5 жыл бұрын

What is it with Yorgos and scrape noises.

@pinkgregory4365 9 ай бұрын

late to comment here, but *excellent* swearing from the cast throughout

@londiwemkenene2280 4 ай бұрын

I don't understand the ending 😢

@skawashers Ай бұрын

The increasing amount of rabbits to signify that the queen continuous loss of love and friendship. Each loss of either and another rabbit appears

@DaviniaHill 5 жыл бұрын

Lye not lime.

@graphiquejack 5 жыл бұрын

The script and the acting was sublime. The camerawork and the costume choices I could live with, but the score was unforgivable. Sometimes you just need to tell the story. Arty heavyhanded direction csncbe taken too far. In this case, for me, it was the score.

@jamessimon3433 Жыл бұрын

Were I to be rancorously grasped about the gullet and downstairs area, there are none finer suited than Rachel Weisz

@jorductions 5 жыл бұрын

This movie made me feel like i overdressed on every drug

@donnathomas2297 5 жыл бұрын

A movie with the focus is three women. The few men are buffoons.

@jasonmoser8957 3 жыл бұрын

the story is the weakest part of the movie especially the ending. Overall a very good (not great) movie. Acting is the 3 ladies is superb. Should have been some awards handed out.

@amyclarke41 5 жыл бұрын

its great but a part disturbed me but no spoilers 😣

@mrsandyq 5 жыл бұрын

*I think I know the part. Me too... but I still loved it.

@Grifftinderpals 5 жыл бұрын

Lye

@josephinewinter 5 жыл бұрын

queen anne having a lover is a big extension of the known truth, people - enjoy the film, but don't base your historical knowledge on this!

@dpj1 5 жыл бұрын

I understand that, in actuality, after Sarah Churchill fell out of favour with Anne she (SC) started making libellous claims and conjured malicious rumours in her journals, about Abigail & Anne being lesbians

@nasserkhan674 5 жыл бұрын

Why?

@zimnaya 5 жыл бұрын

The thing that nobody seems to have queried on any of these sites where "The Favourite" is being discussed is, if it is true that the Queen and the Duchess of Marlborough did indeed go beneath the sheets together, where do those 17 terrible tragic pregnancies fit in, and where indeed her well attested affection for her husband, Prince George of Denmark? Personally, I think the sapphic side of things is yet to be proved. Sarah Churchill - the Duchess of Marlborough - was a resolutely unpleasant woman in reality, and the aspersions or suggestions of sapphic affection stem from her threatening (well, let us tell the truth - blackmailing) letters to the Queen when she had fallen from favour.

@Ian-rj6fq 5 жыл бұрын

I can’t take anything these guys say seriously. After all they thought The Last Jedi was a great film.

@batchint 4 жыл бұрын

who would like to see olivia do night shift like who did.... hehe 😂

@bijibadness 5 жыл бұрын

so, in summation, it wasn't the favorite.

@percyweasley9301 5 жыл бұрын

You shouldn't spoil

@mizofan 5 жыл бұрын

Colman is excellent in it but to call her star of the film rather than co-star (which she prefers) is yet again to privilege (deeply flawed) royalty.

@GA-1st 5 жыл бұрын

I genuinely HATED this movie. Cruel, indeed, and to everyone and everything - particularly the audience. And that includes even the gender it claims to celebrate. An exercise in the ultimate cynicism, that manages to be both a misandrist and misogynist polemic at the same time. Good work, Yorgos, who obviously fancies himself a modern day Kubrick. He has far more in common with Ed Wood. Goes to show that even Kermode, who I've respected ever since John Carpenter gave him brutally hard time, isn't always right...

@moodfox6024 5 жыл бұрын

This isn't a review. It's a synopsis.

@JeffCreates 5 жыл бұрын

There's an awful lot of the film given over in this 9 minutes. I'm not entirely sure i'd feel the need to see it (if i hadn't already) from seeing this, as much as i love Mark

@jeysey200 5 жыл бұрын

A friend of mine watched this movie recently with some of his colleagues from film school, and they absolutely hated it. I hope they it isn’t the slow, boring, over-hyped mess that they made it out to be, because I love the directors previous movies.

@Starkardur 5 жыл бұрын

It's dark deadpan humor - It may not appeal to mainstream America much.

@jasoncha1973facup 5 жыл бұрын

Go and see it. Get new friends with better taste.

@Sam-zj6mw 5 жыл бұрын

Yep, your friends are thick as pigshit.

@MrTonyInchpractice 5 жыл бұрын

Made me laugh aloud at how bad it was at certain points. About as subtle as a brass band.

@robcarrier1969 5 жыл бұрын

Olivia Colman and Rechel Weisz are beyond reproach for their performances, but as a whole I found this film to be quite annoying, the soundtrack in particular is very irritating at times. I also take issue with it being described as a comedy, I did laugh twice to be fair... but overall it was hard work. My wife gave up half way through but I stuck it out to the end. I can't help but think there's something of The Emperor's New Clothes about this film. And reading the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes it's clear that the paying audience has a different opinion about this film to the critics. I don't mind weird films, David Lynch is a favourite of mine, it's more that while well acted the characters are pretty much universally unlikable and it's hard to really care what happens.