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Spencer
Directed by
Pablo Larraín
Produced by Pablo Larraín, Juan de Dios Larraín, Paul Webster, Maren Ade, Jonas Dornbach, and Janine Jackowski
Produced by Pablo Larraín, Juan de Dios Larraín, Paul Webster, Maren Ade, Jonas Dornbach, and Janine Jackowski
Written by
Steven Knight
With:
Kristen Stewart, Timothy Spall, Jack Nielen, Freddie Spry, Jack Farthing, Sean Harris, Stella Gonet, Richard Sammel, Elizabeth Berrington, Lore Stefanek, Amy Manson, Sally Hawkins, James Harkness, and Laura Benson
Cinematography:
Claire Mathon
Editing: Sebastián Sepúlveda
Music: Jonny Greenwood
Editing: Sebastián Sepúlveda
Music: Jonny Greenwood
Runtime:
111 min
Release Date: 05 November 2021
Aspect Ratio: 1.66 : 1
Color: Color
Release Date: 05 November 2021
Aspect Ratio: 1.66 : 1
Color: Color
Stewart exquisitely captures the trapped, tragic qualities of the late Princess of Wales in this biographical psychodrama set during a royal family Christmas in 1991, but Larraín's narrow view fails to instil the kind of deep empathy for his protagonist that he engendered in his similarly themed Jackie (2016).