2021 · drama · biography
Spencer
Directed by Pablo Larraín1h 56m2021
During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana decides to leave her marriage to Prince Charles.
Our read: Spencer (2021) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive drama · biography entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / biography, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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