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    The Favourite

    Nov 03, 2018 5 minutes
    BY MOLLY HASKELL

    Director: Yorgos Lanthimos

    Country/Distributor: Ireland/UK/USA, Fox Searchlight

    Opening: November 23

    IN ALL ABOUT EVE, ONE OF THE ACKNOWLedged models for , Bette Davis utters the famous line: “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night,” a quip that might serve as epigraph and trigger warning for Yorgos Lanthimos’s film about a triangular female power struggle in Queen Anne’s court. And not just as a metaphor. First, as we accompany the orphaned Abigail (Emma Stone), distant relative of the queen who is seeking her place in the royal household, we’re squeezed into a rickety carriage, jostled along a rutted mud-splattered road, and finally dropped into the posterior region of the palace—the stables where you can practically smell the manure, and the scullery

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