The Favourite is simply awe-inspiring in the way it harbors serious themes and anxieties about womanhood underneath a deceptively feather-light surface. The best movie reviews, in your inbox. The movie is pessimistic and vicious but also quite funny, and it's gorgeous to look at.
Yorgos Lanthimos narrates a sequence from his film featuring Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz. "My name is Yorgos Lanthimos, and I'm the director of "The Favourite.'" [clanging] "So this is the place where Abigail and Sarah, the characters that Emma and. "The Favourite" hit theaters Friday, and it's absolutely one of the best movies of the year. Yorgos Lanthimos ("The Lobster," "The Killing of a Sacred Deer") directed the unique historical drama and satire hybrid. It's dramatic, hilarious and filled with unexpectedly incredible performances from.
Revisit these iconic summer movies, from coming-of-age favorites, to whirlwind romances, to camp slashers. This family film explores love, forgiveness, loss, healed relationship and, ultimately, the realization that we are all God's Favorite. With its mix of corseted intrigue and lusty double-crossing, The Favourite occasionally resembles an unlikely mashup of Peter Greenaway's The Draughtsman's Contract and the Wachowskis' Bound, all beautifully dressed by the great Sandy Powell. "The Favourite" Movie Review. To call Yorgos Lanthimos an acquired taste would be an insult to understatements; his movies run the gamut from squirm-inducing to downright impossible to watch. Yorgos Lanthimos's latest is an outrageous period comedy with three outstanding performances from Emma Stone, Olivia Colman Yorgos Lanthimos's The Favourite is a filthy, violent and outrageous period comedy that drips with bad language and worse behaviour, and. The Favourite Review: Royal Court Drama Gets The Lobster Treatment.
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The movie has already been honored with the top prizes at events like the Venice International Film Festival and is poised to keep its winning streak going from here. and with fair reason. Read the full review at Empire. If you can decipher the artsy, spaced-out font, a quick gander at the end credits of The Favourite reveals character names including 'Wanking Man' (Paul Swaine), 'Nude Pomegranate Tory' (Callum Lewin) and 'Fastest Duck In The City' (Horatio).
Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone play royal cousins who are scheming rivals in a savagely witty and stylish misanthropic baroque costume drama that's the most accessible movie yet from director Yorgos Lanthimos. So while "The Favourite" stands apart from his best-known films ("The Lobster," "The Killing of a Sacred Deer," "Dogtooth") by being a period piece Will this war of wills leave the battlefield with many losers but no winners? Part of what makes "The Favourite" such nasty fun is that it's never clear. The Favourite movie review: If you've ever wondered what director Yorgos Lanthimos' version of Keeping Up with the Kardashians would seem like, watch his Oscar-winning film.