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Spencer is a 2021 historical[7][8] psychological drama film directed by Pablo Larraín from a screenplay by Steven Knight. The film is about Princess Diana's existential crisis during the Christmas of 1991, as she considers divorcing Prince Charles and leaving the British royal family. Kristen Stewart and Jack Farthing star as Diana and Charles respectively, joined by Timothy Spall, Sean Harris, and Sally Hawkins.

Spencer
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Directed by	Pablo Larraín
Written by	Steven Knight
Produced by	Juan de Dios Larraín Jonas Dornbach Paul Webster Pablo Larraín Janine Jackowski Maren Ade
Starring	Kristen Stewart Timothy Spall Jack Farthing Sean Harris Sally Hawkins
Cinematography	Claire Mathon
Edited by	Sebastián Sepúlveda[1]
Music by	Jonny Greenwood
Production companies	Komplizen Film[2] Fabula[2] Shoebox Films[2] FilmNation Entertainment
Distributed by	Neon Topic Studios (United States) STXinternational (United Kingdom) DCM Film Distribution (Germany)[3] Sun Distribution (Chile)
Release dates	3 September 2021 (2021-09-03) (Venice) 5 November 2021 (2021-11-05) (United Kingdom and United States)
Running time	117 minutes
Countries	United Kingdom United States Germany Chile
Language	English
Budget	$18 million[4][5]
Box office	$23.9 million[6]

Spencer premiered at the 78th Venice International Film Festival on 3 September 2021, and was theatrically released in the United Kingdom and the United States on 5 November 2021. The film grossed $23 million worldwide and received generally positive reviews from critics, with Stewart's performance garnering widespread acclaim. For her portrayal of Diana, Stewart was nominated for the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress.

Plot

On Christmas Eve 1991, the British royal family prepares to spend the Christmas holidays at the Queen's Sandringham estate in Norfolk. Among the attendees is Diana, Princess of Wales, whose marriage to Prince Charles has become strained due to his affair with Camilla Parker Bowles. The staff of Sandringham prepare for the royals' arrival, and Diana drives around the Norfolk countryside. On the verge of a breakdown, she avoids heading to Sandringham until running into Royal Head Chef Darren McGrady. She notes that the long-abandoned neighbouring estate, Park House, used to be her childhood home. Then she notices a scarecrow in the distance and eagerly runs towards it with a nostalgic expression. Diana takes off its jacket, which once belonged to her father John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer, and goes back to her car.

When Diana arrives at Sandringham, her sons William and Harry are excited to see her, but she does not attempt to socialise with the royal family, who mostly ignore her. Diana's only friend at the Estate is Royal Dresser Maggie, who encourages her to both combat the royal family and fulfil the obligations expected of her. Diana finds a book on Anne Boleyn in her assigned bedroom. She begins to have dreams about Boleyn (including a hallucination of her at a Christmas Eve dinner where she imagines herself destroying a pearl necklace given to her by Charles and eating the pearls in her soup), eventually coming to believe that Boleyn's ghost is haunting her in her capacity as a fellow abandoned royal wife. Diana tries to visit her childhood home but she is stopped by royal guards, who initially mistake her for an intruder.

On Christmas Day, Diana attends the service at St Mary Magdalene Church, Sandringham, where she notices Camilla among the gathered crowd and is photographed by numerous intrusive journalists. She holds a difficult conversation with Charles, who rebuffs her concern over William and Harry's participation in a pheasant shoot the next day and advises her to develop a stronger sense of separation between her public and private lives. Charles privately arranges for Maggie to be sent to London and spreads rumours that she had planted the Boleyn book in Diana's room and made critical comments about her mental health; McGrady denies that she had done so when Diana questions him. Major Gregory attempts to encourage Diana to conform to the pressures of royal life by reminding her that the soldiers of the British Army die attempting to protect the interests of the Crown (and by extension her interests); Diana responds by stating that she never asked anyone to die for her. After imagining wounding herself with a pair of wirecutters given to her by McGrady, Diana avoids the formal Christmas Day dinner, instead running to her childhood home and gaining access to it with the wirecutters. Memories of her happier girlhood overtake her, and she dances from room to room while imagining her younger selves. She considers committing suicide by throwing herself down a flight of stairs, but the hallucination of Boleyn stops her. Instead, she rips apart her pearl necklace.

On Boxing Day, Diana wakes up in her room to find that Maggie has been called back from London. The two travel to a nearby beach, where Diana talks about her mental and marital problems. Maggie responds by confessing that she is in love with Diana. After bidding Maggie farewell, Diana goes to the pheasant shoot, walks out in front of the crowd of hunters, and announces that she is taking William and Harry to London, to which Charles reluctantly agrees. Diana bids farewell to McGrady and Major Gregory returns the Boleyn book to the library. As they drive away, Diana and her children sing along to the song "All I Need Is a Miracle" by Mike and the Mechanics, passing the scarecrow again, now dressed in one of Diana's outfits. They drive to London, where they order KFC and eat by the River Thames. Princess Diana looks across the river, uncertain of her future but no longer feeling burdened by royal responsibility.

Cast

Production

On 17 June 2020, it was announced that Pablo Larraín would direct Spencer, a film starring Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana.[9] On 26 June 2020, it was reported that Neon had acquired the rights to distribute the film in the United States in a deal worth more than $4 million.[10] STX Entertainment and DCM Film Distribution will distribute in the United Kingdom and Germany.[3]

Filming began at the Schlosshotel Kronberg, Germany, in January 2021 with Timothy Spall, Sally Hawkins, and Sean Harris joining the cast.[11][12] Other filming locations were the Schloss Marquardt in Marquardt, north of the city of Potsdam, and Nordkirchen Castle,[13] the moated castle. On 25 March, production moved to the UK for the final stretch of filming, with Jack Farthing joining the cast as Prince Charles, and the film wrapped on 27 April 2021.[14]

Music

Jonny Greenwood composed the score.[15] The score was released by Mercury KX on 12 November 2021.[16] Writing for the You Discover Music website, Sharon Kelly described the soundtrack, stating: "Jonny Greenwood’s genre bending music for the Spencer soundtrack combines free jazz and classical baroque."[17]

Release

Spencer had its world premiere in competition at the Venice International Film Festival.[18] It then screened at film festivals in Telluride,[19] Toronto,[20] London,[21] Philadelphia,[22][23] San Diego[24] and Zurich.[25]

The film was theatrically released in the United Kingdom and the United States on 5 November 2021.[26] It was the last film to be distributed by STX Entertainment in the United Kingdom before the distributor's UK division was shut down on July 28, 2022.[27]

Reception

Box office

Spencer grossed $7.1 million in the United States and Canada, and $16.9 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $24 million.[6]

In the United States and Canada, Spencer made $2.1 million from 996 theatres in its opening weekend.[28] In its second weekend, the film played in 1,265 theatres and made $1.53 million.[29]

Critical response

Upon the teaser trailer's release, Forbes reported that the role "thrusts" Stewart "into the Oscar race" for the Academy Award for Best Actress.[30] After the film's world premiere, Variety also stated, "There's already been plenty of talk in Venice that the role will likely land Stewart her first Oscar nomination." The film received a three-minute standing ovation at its world premiere,[31] with critics lauding Stewart's performance as Diana.[32]

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 83% of 316 critics have given the film a positive review, with an average rating of 7.6/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Spencer can frustrate with its idiosyncratic depiction of its subject's life, but Kristen Stewart's finely modulated performance anchors the film's flights of fancy."[33] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 76 out of 100, based on 53 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[34]

David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter stated that the film "rests on Stewart's shoulders and she commits to the film's slightly bonkers excesses as much as to its moments of delicate illumination" and wrote that "[not] everything lands in Spencer, and I often wondered if the film was so set on bucking convention that it would alienate its audience. But it tells a sorrowful story we all think we know in a new and genuinely disturbing light."[35] Reviewing the film for The Daily Telegraph, Robbie Collin wrote: "The 31-year-old Stewart – who will be instantly and justifiably awards-tipped for this – navigates this perilous terrain with total mastery, getting the voice and mannerisms just right but vamping everything up just a notch, in order to better lean into the film's melodramatic, paranoiac and absurdist swerves."[36] Drawing comparisons between the film and the Jacqueline Kennedy biopic Jackie (2016), also directed by Larraín, Pete Hammond of Deadline Hollywood stated that "Spencer is something else indeed, almost playing out in a conventional dramatic fashion, a more accessible approach in some ways, but also more ambitious as it is squarely from the point of view of its title character, purposely called Spencer to assure us that the person who once was, is well on the way to finding that very lost spirit again before it is too late."[37]

Spencer was listed on many critics' top ten lists for 2021.[38]

Response of Princess Diana's staff

Stewart's portrayal of Diana was hailed as one of the most accurate portrayals of the late Princess. Ken Wharfe, Diana's former bodyguard, commented, "Out of all the people who have played Diana over the past 10 years, she's the closest to her. She managed to perfect her mannerisms." Former Royal Chef Darren McGrady, who was portrayed by actor Sean Harris in the film, said, "Kristen Stewart is amazing as the princess, with her mannerisms and her voice ... the happy scenes of her with the boys, it was like her coming alive again. For real, Kristen Stewart played an amazing part."[39][40] However, McGrady also pointed out that the film took considerable liberties, especially with its use of metaphors, but acknowledged that the film was a fictionalised take on what possibly could have happened.[40]

Accolades

Award	Date of ceremony	Category	Recipient(s)	Result	Ref(s)
AACTA International Awards	26 January 2022	Best Actress	Kristen Stewart	Nominated	[41]
		Best Supporting Actress	Sally Hawkins	Nominated
Academy Awards	27 March 2022	Best Actress	Kristen Stewart	Nominated	[42]
Alliance of Women Film Journalists Awards	25 January 2022	Best Actress	Kristen Stewart	Nominated	[43]
Austin Film Critics Association	11 January 2022	Best Actress	Kristen Stewart	Nominated	[44]
		Best Original Score	Jonny Greenwood	Nominated
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards	12 December 2021	Best Original Score	Jonny Greenwood	Won	[45]
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards	15 December 2021	Best Actress	Kristen Stewart	Won	[46]
		Best Original Score	Jonny Greenwood	Nominated
		Best Costume Design	Jacqueline Durran	Won
Critics' Choice Movie Awards	13 March 2022	Best Actress	Kristen Stewart	Nominated	[47]
		Best Score	Jonny Greenwood	Nominated
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association	20 December 2021	Best Actress	Kristen Stewart	Won	[48]
Denver Film Critics Society	17 January 2022	Best Actress	Kristen Stewart	Won	[49]
		Best Score	Jonny Greenwood	Nominated
Detroit Film Critics Society	6 December 2021	Best Actress	Kristen Stewart	Nominated	[50]
Dorian Awards	17 March 2022	Best Lead Film Performance	Kristen Stewart	Won	[51]
		Best Film Music	Jonny Greenwood	Nominated
Dublin Film Critics' Circle	21 December 2021	Best Actress	Kristen Stewart	Runner-up	[52]
		Best Cinematography	Claire Mathon	4th place
Florida Film Critics Circle	22 December 2021	Best Actress	Kristen Stewart	Nominated	[53]
		Best Cinematography	Claire Mathon	Runner-up
Georgia Film Critics Association	14 January 2022	Best Actress	Kristen Stewart	Nominated	[54]
		Best Original Score	Jonny Greenwood	Nominated
Gold Derby Film Awards	16 March 2022	Best Actress	Kristen Stewart	Won	[55]
		Best Cinematography	Claire Mathon	Nominated
		Best Costume Design	Jacqueline Durran	Nominated
		Best Make Up and hair	Wakana Yoshihara, Sian Wilson, Stacey Panepinto, Nicola Isles	Nominated
		Best Original Score	Jonny Greenwood	Nominated
Golden Globe Awards	9 January 2022	Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama	Kristen Stewart	Nominated	[56]
Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards	13 November 2021	Director Award	Pablo Larrain	Won	[57]
Hollywood Critics Association	28 February 2022	Best Picture	Spencer	Nominated	[58]
		Best Director	Pablo Larraín	Nominated
		Best Actress	Kristen Stewart	Won
		Best Costume Design	Jacqueline Durran	Nominated
		Best Original Score	Jonny Greenwood	Nominated
		Best Cinematography	Claire Mathon	Nominated
		Best Production Design	Guy Hendrix Dyas and Yesim Zolan	Nominated
		Best Indie Film	Spencer	Nominated
Houston Film Critics Society Awards	19 January 2022	Best Actress	Kristen Stewart	Nominated	[59]
		Best Original Score	Jonny Greenwood	Nominated
International Cinephile Society	6 February 2022	Best Picture	Spencer	18th place	[60]
		Best Actress	Kristen Stewart	Nominated
		Best Cinematography	Claire Mathon	Nominated
		Best Score	Jonny Greenwood	Nominated
London Film Critics Circle	6 February 2022	Actress of the Year	Kristen Stewart	Nominated	[61]
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards	18 December 2021	Best Music	Jonny Greenwood	Runner-up	[62]
Online Film Critics Society Awards	24 January 2022	Best Actress	Kristen Stewart	Nominated	[63]
		Best Original Score	Jonny Greenwood	Nominated
		Best Costume Design	Spencer	Nominated
Palm Springs International Film Festival	6 January 2022	Spotlight Award - Actress	Kristen Stewart	Won	[64]
San Diego Film Critics Society	10 January 2021	Best Actress	Kristen Stewart	Nominated	[65]
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle	10 January 2022	Best Actress	Kristen Stewart	Nominated	[66]
		Best Original Score	Jonny Greenwood	Nominated
Satellite Awards	2 April 2022	Best Motion Picture – Drama	Spencer	Nominated	[67]
		Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama	Kristen Stewart	Won
		Best Art Direction and Production Design	Guy Hendrix Dyas and Yesim Zolan	Nominated
		Best Costume Design	Jacqueline Durran	Nominated
		Best Original Score	Jonny Greenwood	Nominated
Seattle Film Critics Society	17 January 2022	Best Actress in a Leading Role	Kristen Stewart	Won	[68]
		Best Costume Design	Jacqueline Durran	Nominated
		Best Original Score	Jonny Greenwood	Nominated
Southeastern Film Critics Association	13 December 2021	Best Actress	Kristen Stewart	Won	[69]
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards	19 December 2021	Best Actress	Kristen Stewart	Won	[70]
		Best Music Score	Jonny Greenwood	Nominated
		Best Costume Design	Jacqueline Durran	Runner-up
Toronto Film Critics Association	16 January 2022	Best Actress	Kristen Stewart	Runner-up	[71]
Venice International Film Festival	11 September 2021	Golden Lion	Pablo Larraín	Nominated	[18]
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association	6 December 2021	Best Actress	Kristen Stewart	Won	[72]
		Best Score	Jonny Greenwood	Nominated
Women Film Critics Circle	13 December 2021	Best Actress	Kristen Stewart	Won	[73]

References

External links

• Spencer at IMDb
• Spencer at Rotten Tomatoes
• Spencer at Metacritic
• Official screenplay

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[ru] Спенсер (фильм)

«Спенсер» (англ. Spencer) — биографический драматический фильм 2021 года режиссёра Пабло Ларраина по сценарию Стивена Найта. Фильм, действие которого разворачивается в 1991 году, рассказывает о решении принцессы Дианы расторгнуть брак с принцем Чарльзом и покинуть британскую королевскую семью. Кристен Стюарт и Джек Фартинг[en] исполнили роли принцессы Дианы и принца Чарльза соответственно. Второстепенные роли исполнили Тимоти Сполл, Шон Харрис и Салли Хокинс.

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