Spencer

Spencer

During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana decides to leave her marriage to Prince Charles.

  • Released: 2021-11-04
  • Runtime: 117 minutes
  • Genre: Drama, History
  • Stars: Kristen Stewart, Jack Farthing, Sally Hawkins, Timothy Spall, Sean Harris, Thomas Douglas, Olga Hellsing, Matthias Wolkowski, Oriana Gordon, Ryan Wichert, John Keogh, Amy Manson, Elizabeth Berrington, Jack Nielen, Freddie Spry, Stella Gonet, Richard Sammel, Lore Stefanek, James Harkness, Laura Benson, Wendy Patterson, Libby Rodliffe, Niklas Kohrt
  • Director: Pablo Larraín
 Comments
  • m_massacre2000 - 13 April 2024
    What a performance!!
    Kristen Stewart was amazing in this!! I felt everything, Diana's awkwardness, unhappiness, her sense of not belonging there, all her suffering, the claustrophobia she felt in her entire life. I felt uncomfortable but this is the success of the film, that it made feel this uncomfortable, anxious and unsettled.

    What really made me feel sad was the gift giving to her sons outside of the official 'processions'. The heartbreak a mother must feel when she is in a situation like Diana's was... there aren't many completely unacceptable things in this world but separating a good mother from her kids is one of them. I felt it. It hurt.
  • xrkmfh - 18 October 2023
    A one dimensional portrayal of a lager than life character.
    Throughout its 116 minute runtime, the movie tries it very best to portray and make you feel the utter sense of emotional claustrophobia, and dehumanisation that Diana must have felt.

    After all, What can be more humiliating that seeing your husband eyeing his mistress in front of the entire family while no one bats an eye.

    However, unfortunately, the movie really misses the mark when it comes to making you have any sense of connection or empathy for the actual person, that we all know the princess of whales to be. Almost halfway through the movie you as the viewer, yourself seem to get frustrated of her daily drama of Im not coming down to eat. You see her frustration but not what's causing it.

    Im the end, yoy yourself start seeing HER as the "problem" while everyone around her tires to help her in vein.

    The movies tries to go down a new path with its almost, horror/ psycho-thriller, genre take, but ends up looking like a random emalgemation of artsy snippets about this entitled "oh-poor-rich-me" coocoo lady.

    With Kristen Stewarts acting this seems like a wasted opportunity on revisiting the complex, yet charismatic character, that princess Diana, the queen of all our hearts was.
  • nikkired-26800 - 8 January 2023
    Awful choice to play Diana!
    I don't see Diana in this role at all... all I see is more bad acting by Kristen Stewart ... had to turn off before the end... absolutely horrendous choice... she's terrible in every role she plays... in most of the scenes it was awkward to watch... the jittered acting.. terrible!! - the costumes were terrible on her.. did not look realistic... she couldn't pull the role off.. the accent was barely audible..her hand gestures and movements... facial expressions... nothing resembled Diana...

    The script was terrible... it made Diana look incredibly insane and incompetent... and most of all weak, childish, and spoiled...
  • daxdiamond - 2 November 2022
    WHY Kristen Stewart????? Terrible Choice.
    WHO chose Kristen Stewart????? Terrible Choice. Her acting was horrible. Diana was stunning. Kristen's mannerisms were creepy. This film was a stab in the back to Princess Diana's legacy. Everyone involved should be ashamed.

    WHO chose Kristen Stewart????? Terrible Choice. Her acting was horrible. Diana was stunning. Kristen's mannerisms were creepy. This film was a stab in the back to Princess Diana's legacy. Everyone involved should be ashamed. Ugggh

    WHO chose Kristen Stewart????? Terrible Choice. Her acting was horrible. Diana was stunning. Kristen's mannerisms were creepy. This film was a stab in the back to Princess Diana's legacy. Everyone involved should be ashamed. Awful.
  • akmc-87004 - 18 September 2022
    Tedious does not even begin to describe it.
    I gave this 20 minutes of my life, that I would like back, please.

    How much happened in that time? Trust me, this is not a spoiler, it's a time saver.

    The army stocked the kitchen at a royal country estate. We later learn that this is for Christmas festivities.

    Their delivery trucks drive over a dead bird, barely missing it, which we get to see for an extended period. This may or may not have been a cack-handed metaphor for the unfeeling might of The Evil Establishment crushing the hopes and dreams of a delicate spirit that just wants to soar into the air. If so, memo to the director? See whether you can find the word "subtlety" in the dictionary. It's under "S". (Or maybe the director just likes to see dead birds dodging truck tyres, really, who knows? Or cares.)

    Diana, driving to that estate in a great show of frustration, discovers that she can't read a map while driving.

    Diana finds her way to a cafe where everyone was so AWESTRUCK by her presence that they were incapable of answering the question "Where am I?", which was admittedly delivered in a way to optimise the discomfort of all in attendance. But yes, if you have about 30 people in one place it's perfectly reasonable to assume that not one of them, not one, would be capable of answering a simple question. Instead we just have... silence. Tension-filled silence, I say! Can't you just FEEEL her sense of isolation?

    Diana, now terribly late for the festivities, finds her way to a farm field and sees a scarecrow. Apparently it's near where she used to live. The army cook from the first scene appears in a Land Rover rather than being in the kitchen preparing the meal because... oh, I don't know, "reasons", I suppose.

    She has a disjointed conversation with that cook, where they don't seem to be talking TO each other, so much as ACROSS each other. (What do I mean? You had to be there. And you may wish that you hadn't been.) Diana then goes and vandalises the scarecrow because... really, who cares?

    Two people in a castle have a conversation about... "HE...is HERE!" "Yes. But... SHE.... is LATE!" I suppose that in the writer's mind this passed for "tension".

    Cue a disjointed jazz introduction theme that seems to have nothing to do with either the characters or their location.

    Diana needs to weigh in when she arrives at the castle because there's a tradition that people need to put on weight to show that they had a good Christmas. That is, indeed, a ridiculous tradition. However once again Stewart's Diana shows how thoroughly likeable and sympathetic she is by making the conversation with the master of scales as awkward, uncomfortable, and passive-aggressive as possible.

    William and Harry turn up. They are cold. They have been given blankets and a heavy coat (something dragged out of the attic because members of the Royal family apparently don't have enough money to buy, you know, clothes and stuff.) "Why don't they just TURN UP THE HEAT!!!", Stewart mutters repeatedly, possibly looking for a carpet to chew.

    And at that point, I'm out. I have no idea how close or not it was to the real Diana, but THIS Diana comes across as being several sandwiches short of a Royal picnic (oh, I forgot, she was complaining about having to go and eat sandwiches too), seems to go out of her way to irritate - pretty much everyone, actually, and hey, it worked a treat on me! - and has as firm a grip on reality as... well, the script writer, probably.

    I'm out. I already know the ending anyway, but the movie would have been far more effective had the protagonist been even remotely sympathetic or even relatable, which this incarnation of Diana is not in my view.