The Favourite

A brilliant film, but you do have to concentrate (it's better on a second viewing) and the loud music drives you mad. Three wonderful actresses give three wonderful performances but personally I think Colman is underused and a few more close ups, showing what her character is thinking, would have helped focus the film. Anyway, small criticism and I wouldn't want to take any screen time away from Weisz and Stone, who flit between charm and evil as they stamp their authority on what was (over 300 years ago) supposedly a man's world.

Esta demostró ser un paso gigante para la industria cinematografica.

totally awful had no idea what was going on really hated it no idea why it would win anything hours of my life wasted that i won't get back!

From the director of Poor Things that recently won many Oscars, the Favourite is the one that interested me the most and of course, this is period drama but surprisingly quite hilarious which I found to be quite amusing. Yeah, never thought of that the first time. Great Britain is at war with France. Queen Anne played by Olivia Colman, is in poor health; she shows little interest in governing, preferring activities such as playing with her 17 rabbits, surrogates for the children she miscarried or who died in infancy. Her confidante, advisor, and furtive lover Sarah Churchill played by Rachel Weisz, effectively rules the country through her influence over the Queen. Abigail Hill played by Emma Stone, who is Sarah's impoverished younger cousin, arrives in search of employment. Her standing has been tainted by her father, who gambled her away in a game of whist. She is forced to do menial work as a scullery maid in the palace. Since I couldn't catch on how humorous is was twice, I thought I add in some quotes that had me on the funny spot. "That Harley is a fop and a prat and smells like a ninety-six-year-old French w***e's vajuju.", "Did you just look at me? Did you? Look at me! Look at me! How dare you! Close your eyes!" I bet anybody who has seen this movie will be ***t-strucked by it and yes, I use that term just to clarify the fact that this is set in the period of the 18th century in Great Britain. With how funny it is with the Blackadder to be exact, I mean exactly that. The Favourite is a great period comedy drama that provides great writing, solid direction, incredible acting by the cast, humorous laughs, great costumes and great cinematography. It's the entirety of The Favourite that will get you entirely ***t-strucked and for sure I did. Go see it. That is if you love seeing the rabbits though. I can't wait to see Emma Stone again in Poor Things in the near future so stay tuned for that. Woowoowoo!

It got good reviews and awards so I stuck it for ages. But it's junk. Costumes, sets, acting maybe. But who cares?

What a waste of my time! I love period movies, but this one took so many liberties with history that it was absurd. So uncomfortable to watch. Be smart and skip this one!

Great movie, a game of chess between two queens. Definitely a preparation for Poor things, but a movie in its own right in any case

This movie has great performances from Emma Stone whole led the film in suspense and drama. That being said, what this film does wrong is the force sex scenes of which added little context to the plot and supporting cast few scenes of which were more of an extra were it was not needed. Aside from that is an ok film that it were not nominated for best picture I though few would even think this was made.

One of my "favorite" movies:):):)

One of the worst movies I have ever seen and the ending was by far the very worst.. Too weird, confusing and pretentious I was expecting better. The film has some bones to which a good movie could have been made. I believe in the 3 main actresses and the general idea for the story. The costumes and sets looked great. But a lot of the storytelling came off as pretentious, over the top, confusing, boring or dumb. I didn't understand the point to a lot of the movie and after reading some of the reviews, even the positive ones and ones with spoilers, it appears I'm not the only one who couldn't explain a lot of the movie. I agree with the common note that the music is annoying. There were a couple scenes where they replayed the same couple rhythmic notes over and over and over and over again. And it was to no obvious purpose unless their point was to piss me off and distract me. Dunkirk has some similar musicnear the beginning. But in Dunkirk it reflected the building tension of the scene and sped up. In the Favourite it felt like a poor imitation which didn't understand why it worked in Dunkirk. Most of the time the score was fine. But the 2 moments with the repeating rhythm were difficult to overlook. The use of fowl language and gratuity didn't bother me. But too often I couldn't understand the overall purpose or goal or insinuations of other moments. At times I wondered what exectly we were supposed to think was really going on. But given that at times the film wasn't afraid to gratuitously say what was going on, it made it rather difficult to suppose the less literal take on events was the justifiable presumption. Many of the wide fish-eye camera Angles were also distracting. And the pacing felt slow. I think more daringly odd choices typically work when they are added more subtly than what is seen in The Favourite. To put it simply: the style and content were too prevalent and confusing for me to sufficiently get invested in a good story or a good movie. It's not my Fovourite.