Review of The Favourite (2018) by Brunovn00 — 30 Mar 2019

My personal favorite movie of 2018. "The Favourite" directed by Yorgos Lanthimos is an amazing movie about cousins Abigail Hill and Sarah Churchill vying to become Queen Anne's favourite.

The Good:

-The acting. Emma Stone, Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz are amazing in this movie, but Olvia Colman as Queen Anne steals the show and I'm happy that she won the Academy Award. Her acting might be a little exagerated and over-the-top at some points, but Queen Anne is not just a "cartoon" of a character, she actually has a backstory and a reason to act the way she acts (this is a spoiler-free review, so obviosuly I won't mention it). Emma Stone also did a great job and if she was the lead, I guess she could've taken the award instead.

-The directing is so good, I like how this movie is shot. It has so many "dynamic" shots in so many scenes that makes a normal two-people conversation actually visually interesting. If Alfonso Cuarón wasn't nominated for Best Director at the Oscars for his work on Roma, I think Lanthimos could've win the award. I loved the cinematography overall, the color palette fits the mood and time period of the movie and the costumes and sets are all pretty good.

-The script is good. The movie is not as funny as I thought it would be but it is never boring, there's always something interesting happening on screen, the characters are well developed and written, that's why the acting is amazing and the dialogue is also pretty good.

-I liked the score. Yes, it's nothing too amazing or innovative, but it fits well the movie and the tone.

The Bad:

-Honestly I don't have any complaints with this movie. Maybe as a stupid nitpick, the texts that indicates the beggining of a new act are a little hard to read, but maybe it's just me.

-I guess the ending was a little disappointing, but that doesn't ruin the movie, nor my opinion on it.

This was my choice for Best Picture at the 2019 Oscars, but I guess I understand why Green Book won instead. This is an amazing movie that tells you an interesting story, but that's it, it's not a movie that tries to change your mind or anything and while I think it's better than Green Book overall, maybe that movie won the big prize for its subject matter.