the favourite film review

Sexy, thrilling, and hilarious, The Favourite is a one-of-a-kind period drama

By: Kate Olivares     Warning: this review contains mild spoilers for the film! In true Yorgos Lanthimos style, The Favourite is batshit crazy. As he also directed The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer — two films that fuel my nightmares to this day — I was very pleased to see him take on a period piece. With the general constraints this well-trodden genre entails, his frenzied madness in The Favourite was restrained in favour of some plot and character development. This film centres around Sarah Churchill (Rachel Weisz) and Abigail Masham (Emma Stone) fighting to be…

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