Spencer

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Spencer

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2021

1h 51m

Biography

Drama

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The marriage of Princess Diana and Prince Charles has long since grown cold. Though rumors of affairs and a divorce abound, peace is ordained for the Christmas festivities at the Queen's Sandringham Estate. There's eating and drinking, shooting and hunting. Diana knows the game. But this year, things will be profoundly different. SPENCER is an imagining of what might have happened during those few fateful days.

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Critics Consensus

Spencer can frustrate with its idiosyncratic depiction of its subject's life, but Kristen Stewart's finely modulated performance anchors the film's flights of fancy.

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Audience Says

Kristen Stewart is great in Spencer, but viewers expecting a traditional -- or even clear -- picture of Diana's life are likely to come away disappointed.

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Christina Newland

iNews.co.uk

09/23/2024

3/5

If this is a ‘fable from a true tragedy’, the way Larrain harnesses that tragedy ends up being just another way to define Diana as a victim.

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Sandra Hall

Sydney Morning Herald

01/19/2022

3/5

In a breathless, headlong way, Stewart does a credible job, but she’s perched on the edge of hysteria throughout and the upbeat ending fails to alter the impression that she and Larraín have delivered a one-dimensional portrait of a victim.

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Jason Bailey

Crooked Marquee

12/28/2021

Stewart was an unlikely but, it's now clear, ingenious choice for the role; she's going through such a period of pronounced anguish that the wrong kind of actor would have played the whole thing as overwrought, and ruined it.

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Francesca Steele

iNews.co.uk

12/10/2024

5/5

Pablo Larraín's film portrays a frenzied, haunted woman disintegrating before our eyes - it is a mesmerising triumph.

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Denise Pieniazek

Puesta en Escena (AR)

08/18/2024

9/10

The protagonist is Diana Spencer like her life, this story does not represent a traditional biopic. The proposal of this “fable of a real tragedy” is to unmask that idyllically called “fairy tale” whose paradigm changed from Diana's experience...

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Calum Cooper

In Their Own League

07/15/2024

4/5

Stewart’s performance is a staggering one that does so much more than merely replicate the looks and mannerisms of her historical icon.

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Tony C

01/25/2022

Kristen Stewart's transformation becoming Princess Diana is remarkably convincing.

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David H

12/16/2021

First of all, I couldn't understand much of the dialogue. Yes, I have a slight hearing problem, but seriously...there were times I was convinced they were speaking a foreign language. I don't know how much fact there was in this movie...we know Diana was depressed and had bulimia, but I left the theater a little depressed myself and headed for a good Tex-Mex meal with more than one margarita. I had a lot of respect for Diana during her years in the palace and felt she was dealt a raw deal by the royal family, but when the end of this movie FINALLY came, I really didn't care any more. She deserves to be remembered in a more caring manner.

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James M W

12/12/2021

A bit slow nor sure what the overall "message" was - if there was one!

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nicholas s

12/12/2021

IT WENT NOWHERE. It painted a completely different picture of Diana. Was it based on fact or just out and out vengeance towards Diana? Save your time and money and by a good book

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Bogdana

12/11/2021

I loved Kristen Stewart in this movie. It shows the fragile mental state of Diana during the Christmas holiday with the royal family. The movie is more on the artistic site.

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Kim

12/09/2021

I enjoyed the movie and the acting was wonderful!

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Synopsis

The marriage of Princess Diana and Prince Charles has long since grown cold. Though rumors of affairs and a divorce abound, peace is ordained for the Christmas festivities at the Queen's Sandringham Estate. There's eating and drinking, shooting and hunting. Diana knows the game. But this year, things will be profoundly different. SPENCER is an imagining of what might have happened during those few fateful days.

Director: Pablo Larraín
Producer: Maren Ade, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Juan de Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín, Paul Webster
Screenwriter: Steven Knight
Distributor: Neon
Production Co: Shoebox Films, FilmNation Entertainment, Fabula, Komplizen Film
Rating: R (Some Language)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 5, 2021, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 23, 2021
Box Office (Gross USA): $7.1M
Runtime: 1h 51m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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