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    Portrait of a Princess

    Nov 04, 2021 1 minute

    SPENCER

    Kristen Stewart, Sally Hawkins, Timothy Spall, Sean Harris

    5/5

    Twenty-four years after her death, and hooted over Netflix’s batshit , you might be surprised to find yourself doing both in genius Chilean director Pablo Larrain’s strange, brilliant imagining of a single Christmas in the life of the embattled royal, as she hovered on the brink of divorce in 1990. Equal parts intensive character study, dark comedy, and high-camp diva portrait, it hinges on a gutsy, truly surprising performance by Kristen Stewart — not doing a fussy, technical impersonation, but instead channelling her own celebrity and insecurity into a close-up evocation of life under a tabloid microscope. It’s freely and unapologetically fictional, yet somehow feels all the more truthful and moving for that.

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