The Favourite

Early 18th-century England is at war with the French. Nevertheless, duck racing and pineapple eating are thriving.

A frail Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) occupies the throne and her close friend Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz) governs the country in her stead while tending to Anne’s ill health and mercurial temper. When a lithe new servant (Emma Stone) arrives, a sexually-charged war for the body and soul of Queen Anne erupts in this wildly entertaining comedy of royal manners.

Part of the series “Three by Jorgos Lanthimos”

“Lanthimos, his camera gliding through gilded corridors and down stone staircases — in exquisitely patterned light and shadow, with weird lenses and startling angles — choreographs an elaborate pageant of decorum and violence, claustrophobia and release.” — The New York Times

Film website: foxsearchlight.com/thefavourite