Spencer (2021)
Storyline
During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana decides to leave her marriage to Prince Charles.
Directors
Cast
Kristen Stewart, Richard Sammel, John Keogh, Sean Harris, Sally Hawkins, Timothy Spall, Elizabeth Berrington, Ryan Wichert, Jack Farthing, James Harkness, Amy Manson, Stella Gonet, Laura Benson, Thomas Douglas, Olga Hellsing, Matthias Wolkowski, Oriana Gordon, Jack Nielen, Freddie Spry, Lore Stefanek, Wendy Patterson, Libby Rodliffe
Trailer
Reviews
100
Kristen Stewart proves entirely compelling in the title role. She gives an awkward and mannered performance as Diana, and this is entirely as it should be when one considers that Diana gave an awkward and mannered performance herself, garnishing her inbred posh hauteur with studied coquettish asides.
100
The 31-year-old Stewart – who will be instantly and justifiably awards-tipped for this – navigates this perilous terrain with total mastery, getting the voice and mannerisms just right but vamping everything up just a notch, in order to better lean into the film’s melodramatic, paranoiac and absurdist swerves.
100
All the right people are going to hate Spencer. That’s just how good it is.
100
Spencer is an intimate speculative drama that stays as close as it can to everything we know about Diana. At the same time, the movie is infused with a poetic extravagance.
80
Not everything lands in Spencer, and I often wondered if the film was so set on bucking convention that it would alienate its audience. But it tells a sorrowful story we all think we know in a new and genuinely disturbing light.
