IMDb plot summary: During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana Spencer, struggling with mental health problems, decides to end her decade-long marriage to Prince Charles.
Directed by Pablo Larrain. Starring Kristen Stewart, Timothy Spall, and Jack Nielen.
Spencer is a biopic looking at a few days in the life of Princess Diana as she spends Christmas with the royal family. Diana just wants to have a quiet holiday with her boys and is tired and frustrated with her loveless marriage and all the things forbidden to her because of her position, from opening presents on Christmas Day to keeping her curtains open. The film does an incredible job of showing the stifling atmosphere of this formal holiday gathering and making us feel how Diana is at the very edge of her sanity, completely trapped, and held back from anything she tries to do to ground herself. Kristen Stewart is stunning here, every movement charged with barely-contained (and sometimes not at all contained) fury at the situation she's in, and as she makes impulsive, unpredictable choices to try to regain some agency, it's impossible not to sympathize with her. The cinematography and soundtrack contribute beautifully to the film's suffocating mood as well. Overall, a powerful and compelling glimpse into this specific life.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Spencer > The Harder They Fall
Spencer > Long Day's Journey Into Night
Spencer < Nightcrawler
Spencer < True Lies
Spencer > Judas and the Black Messiah
Spencer > The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Spencer > Les Miserables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary
Spencer > Big Trouble in Little China
Spencer < Colossal
Spencer < Booksmart
Spencer > Onward
Spencer < The Pawnbroker
Final spot: #671 out of 3524, or 81%.
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