THE FAVOURITE
Two women plot to ensnare the favour of Queen Anne, in what promises to be a delicious banquet of debauchery, courtly politics, pomegranate-lobbing, back- stabbing and duck-racing.
The Favourite is the perfect macabre remedy to the stagnating period drama genre which has suffocated itself in its own conceptual corset for far too long. Perhaps it wasn’t your first choice to hunker down with such a chilly tale of betrayal and deceit in the winter months, but this tantalising platter is accessible to courtroom drama freaks as much as it opens its arms to indie nuts and bares its teeth to horror fiends.
Go watch The Favourite from
the 1st January 2019 in cinemas across Norfolk.
In its curiosity cabinet, The Favourite offers a divine selection of thespians, from Olivia Coleman as the paranoid sovereign herself, to the gun-toting Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz) and devilish cousin Abigail (Emma Stone). It’s rare enough to see a period piece fronted by
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an all-female cast and rarer still to see a flick so unafraid to get its proverbial boots dirty and hold a fish-eyed lens up to the ugly and ludicrous parts of history.
Yorgos Lanthimos’ most esteemed piece to date looks set to follow in the bloody footsteps of its predecessors The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer and has spared none of the excessive shadows, gallows humour and gothic drapery (though mercifully has discontinued his obsession with animals) that we have come to expect from his creative mitts.
Words: Louis
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