The Favourite

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Where to start with this:
acting all round, especially Olivia Colman, though I feel bit unfair ranking her when Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz and Nicholas Hoult were so entrancing too.

Outstanding costumes and tip-top disco dancing (spoiler alert).

It's petty much plot-free on the obvious level, though based on historical events and real people. Replete with anachronistic language, but deliberately so, so trés post-modern.

I loved it.

I have just seen it. It was marvellously bonkers. It must have been extremely fun to make. I loved every minute. I may have to see it again to remember some of the fabulously cutting lines of dialogue.

I do hope Olivia gets a truck load of awards.

I saw it last weekend and still haven't decided if I liked it or not

Am I the only person here who didn't like it? Weird in a pointless way and boring. Yes, the acting was good and the setting was lovely, but I wasn't engaged by the characters or plot and was just annoyed by all the quirky bits. Nobody else in the cinema seemed enthusiastic either. Very disappointing after all the good publicity.

I loved it. Just wonderful.

Just in from seeing this. Funny, rude and a little bit sad. Love love loved the costumes and the wigs! Bugged me how they kept filming as if we were looking up from a childs hright tho. Enjoyed it but I don’t think I would watch it again.

Just been to see it. Thought it was absolutely crap. Weak story line. And that poor rabbit. That was completely unnecessary. Olivia Coleman is a very good actress. Two hours of my life I'll never get back.

And what on earth was the orange throwing scene all about?!

Phew- it wasn't just me! I forgot to mention the odd camera angles. I first sat in one of the front rows and after ten minutes had to move. I went to one of the back rows - and still got neckache from having to look up all the time!

I was ready to walk out at the rabbit scene; it really, really upset me. I think if it had lasted literally one second longer, I would have been away. I know it was only pretend and the rabbit wasn't actually harmed, but that screaming was horrific.

That's a really badly designed cinema if you can't look at the whole screen.

I hate when directors get arty farty with camera angles.
The audience wants to watch the film in the best possible way.
Arty farty angles can be done in film school.

I liked it as a thoroughly barking piece of anachronism. Olivia Colman's performance was stunning, right up there with Nigel Hawthorne's George III. Wonderful designs, the navy/white was a stroke of genius.

I enjoyed it. Strong performances from the main cast. A dark film with some humorous moments. A film that will linger on in my memory.

lily2019

glad it wasn't just me! me and DD thought what a load of rubbish - DH thought it great - each to their own I suppose

Oh I was just going to start a thread called 'I saw The Favourite and I didn't love it.'

I thought I would love it and I didn't.

Acting wise, Olivia, Rachel, Emma, all brill obvs (and I really liked Nicholas Hoult), but I didn't like the fisheye lens effect and I really really didn't like the sub Peter Greenaway vibe - the script just wasn't clever enough or had enough depth to sustain it.

I kept waiting for it to take off and it really didn't.

And I couldn't forgive it for the 'my father lost me to a game of cards' line which is basically Angela Carter's Tigers Bride, which would have been a MUCH better story.

Merrylegs - I agree about the sub Peter Greenaway vibe. Some echoes of The Draughtsman's Contract - which I loved -without the creative vision which held that together.

Yes, lily the creative vision, exactly!

Like the orange throwing scene - in a Greenaway film that would have added real depth to the narrative and a kind of opulence iyswim. But here it just felt a bit one dimensional. Same with the duck. Like quirky for quirky's sake. (Although I'm sure they were all bonkers.)

And then the ending with the rabbits turned a bit Ken Russell.

(The acting did really save this film though. I enjoyed that.)

Last night I dreamed that I owned a pet rabbit after seeing the film yesterday. Not cute at all; very creepy.

I loved it.

Did I miss something with the rabbit though? She didn’t actually kill it, did she?

I covered my eyes at that point, Notthispatrick so I can't say for sure, but I think she did. In the final scene, the queen made her kneel down and grabbed her hair very firmly, forcing her into submission, as if she was punishing her.

No she didn't - she lifts her foot and the rabbit hops away

IsFuzzyBeagMise

No she doesn’t, she lifts her foot and it hops off, she doesn’t realise Queen Anne sees her.

Oh thank God! Thanks for letting me know 😊 poor rabbit.

re music comments.....music was one of best things about it!!!

I liked the weirdness of the music too.