“Your innocence, Mr. Neville, is always sinister.” Given his background as an artist, it’s no surprise that director Peter Greenaway would focus on the subject as a source for his movies. Twenty five years apart, The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982) and Nightwatching (2007) are mirror images of each other, each focusing on an artist who smuggles…
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The Favourite (2019)
“As it turns out, I’m capable of much unpleasantness.” Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite is a darkly comic, camp and cynical historical drama. Set in 1708, Britain is at war with France (again). Olivia Colman plays Queen Anne, a remote, childlike monarch who relies on her close advisers. The closest is Sarah Churchill, played by…
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