Spencer (Pablo Larrain, 2021)

With Kristen Stewart, Sally Hawkins, and Sean Harris

 

Cool poster

 

anne boleyn is in this???

 

wasn't a huge fan of Jackie but will see this for KStew

 

Man, sounds like this is absolutely incredible.

 

trailer tomorrow

 

Saw the trailer before either No Time to Die or Dune, looks interesting.

 

I saw this last night, and I’m not sure I can think of a worse leading performance than Stewart in this, she is absolutely appalling, visibly acting and exaggerated with every motion, every single head tilt and eye roll, and not able to get close to the accent. I’ve seen lots of praise about her performance beforehand, which I cannot get my head around, it was completely “nails on a chalkboard” for two hours for me.

There’s a lot to like about the rest of the film, the score is great, Larrain’s direction and shot composition is excellent, and the blending of the fantasy and reality and history really works. The rest of the supporting cast are solid. There’s a couple of issues I have with the politics / class issues (but I can live with that, it’s introduced as a fable), but Stewart’s performance turns the film from something approaching great, to something that’s barely watchable for long stretches of time.

Considering the relatively consistent praise this is getting, this may be a minority opinion, but I was gobsmacked how she performed here.

 

I fuckin loved this. Incredibly gripping, and actually genuinely spooky in parts. It’s incredibly oppressive, and I thought Steward was great.

 

I think Stewart has the Oscar locked with this performance

 

Thought this was great. Got some shining vibes for a minute there.

 

Yeah creepy as hell. Honestly kinda hard to understand the dialogue at times, think I’ll love it on a home rewatch.

 

i had qualms (too long by about 20 mins is the big one) but i thought this was really effective and better than jackie. stewart was great, greenwood score is INCREDIBLE

 

note: i love so-heavily-stylized-it’s-practically-camp acting such as what stewart serves here

 

this definitely needed a tw ed and self harm ,I could definitely see it being triggering
Johnny Greenwood, Sally Hawkins, Sean Harris and the corgis mvps
Kristen Stewart was good but it's jarring trying to grapple with "the real Diana" in combination with how dreamlike this movie is, I don't care how authentic a movie is, I actually like how this and Jackie do that, but that didn't stop my brain from trying to figure out if any of it was real

 

i don't think i've ever seen a movie with a trigger warning

 

isn't that what ratings are

 

Actually an interesting concept that I could see happening, the way before something plays on HBO there’s that list of “nudity, violence, adult themes” etc

 

yeah, fair point. i feel like they're usually pretty vague and don't get into specific triggers, but you're right.

 

Yeah, just making it more specific I think would be helpful

 

Stewart was quite good and the score was incredible but as a movie this was just fine. The directing and script got in the way of the movie more than it serviced it