Mario Dhingsa's Blog - Posts Tagged "spencer"

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📣(Dis)Enchanted: Princess Diana is driven to breaking point for the last time amidst the strictness, surveillance, suspicion, and emotional hypothermia of Christmas with the Windsors.

👍My father's care:
Stewart shines as brightly as the original princess, and is effortlessly adept throughout; most notably with Diana's disintegration as she suffocates under an oppression masquerading as tradition.
Spall, Hawkins, Harris, Farthing and Jack Nielen (Prince William) are likewise mesmerising, and deeply impressive in their complexity.

👎My husband's affair:
Stunned that the film hasn't been Oscar-nominated for Best Director, Costume Design, Cinematography, Original Score or any of its gifted supporting cast.
And the film's complete BAFTA snub shows an industry and country still coming to terms with several of its own uncomfortable truths.

🥇Best quote:
"Hold on.
Fight them.
Be beautiful.
You are your own weapon.
Don't cut it to pieces."

🙁Best depressing quote:
"Why do we have to open our presents on Christmas Eve?"
"You know at school, you do tenses?
There's the past, the present, future.
Well here, there is only one tense.
There is no future.
The past and the present are the same thing."

💉Best vaccine quote:
"They asked me to suggest that you see a doctor.
Don't see conspiracy everywhere.
It is concern."

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