Director: Pablo Larraín. Cast: Kristen Stewart, Timothy Spall, Sally Hawkins, Sean Harris. 117 min. Biography/Drama.
- Long-awaited Diana biopic, with Kristen Stewart astonishingly transformed into the late princess, showing her revolt against the royal family during a few days in Christmas.
- Of course, this will be compared to the 4th season of the Netflix show, The Crown, where Diana first makes an appearance. So be forewarned: this is a moody, slow-paced movie, showing the inner tumult of the lady, rather than the dizzying drama surrounding her and better narrated on the TV show. The characters in the show (especially Prince Charles) look much more like their real-life counterparts; the characters in the movie (especially the Queen) look more grotesque, nasty, or perhaps ... artsy - a crucial difference between TV and cinema.
- As expected, you will need a decent familiarity with the real-life characters and their historical interactions, to appreciate the movie. For instance, Camilla Bowles has a very fleeting few-second presence in the background of one of the scenes, without even being called by name. If you don't recognize it's Camilla, then the power of the scene is gone. If you don't realize from the get-go whom Diana is referring to as "her", then maybe there's no point in watching the movie in the first place.
- After his 2016 film Jackie (biopic on Jackie Kennedy during the days after the JFK assassination), this is Pablo Larraín's second movie about a "political-wife-in-distress". While interested to see if and whom about the director will round out a trilogy, both movies suffer from an "okay, get to the point ..." feeling throughout.
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