On Christmas weekend in 1991, the marriage between Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales, nèe Diana Spencer, spirals apart. And we get to watch. Director Pablo Larraín and screenwriter Steven Knight ingeniously weave a narrative that stays scrupulously close to known historical fact with a dark, dream-like fairytale gone wrong, a mashup of the official history, SNOW WHITE and THE SHINING. The film’s power emerges directly from the fearless and deeply committed performance of Kristen Stewart, imagining Diana mercurial and haunted, while Sally Hawkins, Timothy Spall and Sean Harris play the royal staff torn between their obligation to help control Diana and their desire to support her. The score, from Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood, ingeniously combines chamber music, jazz and pop. Following his films NO, NERUDA and JACKIE, Larraín continues an inspired string of alternative histories of essential moments. –LG (U.K./Germany/ Chile, 2021, 111m)
In person: Pablo Larraín, Kristen Stewart
Screenings: Saturday 4 September 1pm and 6.45pm. Sunday 5 September 10pm. Monday 6 September 9.15am with a post-screening Q&A (8.15am PT/ 11.15am ET).
Source: Telluride Film Festival
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