Favourite (The)

Oooh you can just sink your teeth into this [right] royal lesbian romp.

Olivia Colman is perfect as the slightly goofy, off-the-rails Sapphic Queen...who picks and rejects those who lustily satify her carnal needs. She may even shock a few conservatives with her rather candid demands! She was simply born to play this part. Delicious.

Now for the favourite(s): Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone. Both have contrasting character arcs...from the defeated to the victor and vice versa...they are sneaky and snide...and, very, very bitchy. There's also Nicholas Hoult playing - with a sense of relish - the ultimate bewigged, floppy fop.

The script is inspired madness...with just enough touches of darkness and sadness to offset the absolute lunacy that unfolds. Weird camera angle, weirder lenses [especially fisheye] add to the weirdness. Obviously, Yorgos Lanthimos wanted to make the audience more voyeur than viewer...at times, the intrusion you feel is...[for want of a better word] awkward.

This is this director-of-the-bizarre's most commercial film so far - destined for a multitude of awards [Olivia Coleman may even get an Oscar nod]...but, just when you thought Mr Lanthimos throws an unsettling curve-ball...the ending. Rather dark, totally unfathomable, so unexpected...with, perhaps, a suggestion of a possible sequel...intriguing stuff.

Joyously titillating, gloriously entertaining, royally approved!

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