{"id":35315,"date":"2018-12-27T18:29:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T18:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccmagazine.es\/la-favorita-la-nueva-obra-maestra-de-yorgos-lanthimos\/"},"modified":"2024-03-27T18:05:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T18:05:55","slug":"the-favourite-yorgos-lanthimos-new-masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ccmagazine.es\/en\/the-favourite-yorgos-lanthimos-new-masterpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"The Favourite: Yorgos Lanthimos\u2019 new masterpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Favourite<\/em> is the first period drama of the film maker, set in the extravagant background of the aristocracy and royalty of the XVIII century. It\u2019s a story where the main ingredients are desire, jealousy, power, sex, love, trust, friendship and betrayal. A veritable collage of situations and feelings that concoct this film based on a true story which marked not only the lives of these three extremely dominant women but also on the fate of England.<\/p>\n

Strangely enough, all this\u00a0intrigue\u00a0does not lie far from our current reality, and in fact, the director himself believes that human behaviour today is no different that of those times and that we can still observe these types of scenes in our daily lives.<\/p>\n

When filming a period drama, it\u2019s always interesting to see what it has in common with our own lives. You realize how little things have changed except our clothing and that we now have electricity or the Internet. However, there are many similarities that are still current in human behaviour, society and the structure of power.<\/p>\n

The film \u2013 which got the\u00a0Great Jury Prize<\/em>\u00a0in its journey through the\u00a0Venice film festival<\/em>, and the award for best actress for\u00a0Olivia Colman<\/em>\u00a0-, is structured in chapters, as if it were a book, and each chapter deals with a necessary tempo to understand the nature of the characters, their nooks and crannies, the fragile nature of their relationships and their power games\u2026They are all headed by a key phrase, which disconcerts us initially but which later helps us submerge ourselves in the\u00a0core\u00a0<\/em>of this\u00a0passionate triumvirate.<\/p>\n

This time,\u00a0Lanthimos\u00a0<\/em>has counted on the invaluable help of director of photography\u00a0Robbie Ryan<\/em>\u00a0– collaborator of British\u00a0Andrea Arnold in<\/em>\u00a0Wuthering heights or\u00a0American Honey –<\/em>, and it\u2019s definitely noticeable. The Favourite<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>oozes splendour through its great\u00a0angles, sublime and prolonged cross fades, fisheye effects and violent panoramic views\u2026He has also counted on screen writer,\u00a0Tony McNamara<\/em>, who he worked closely with on the original screenplay by\u00a0Deborah Davis<\/em>. For both, The Favourite<\/em>, in spite of what it may seem, is a love story above all.<\/p>\n

The history is about how complicated love is and how your identity can be distorted and deformed by these complications. We call this a tragic comedy and that\u2019s what it is. It explores people who love each other but there are many other aspects of their personality and what they aspire to obtain in life that obstruct this love.<\/p>\n

Another of the oddities of this particular chronicle, and which\u00a0Lanthimos<\/em>\u00a0was surely drawn to, is that\u00a0Anne<\/em>\u00a0is England\u2019s least known Queen. Partly because despite her extraordinary seventeen pregnancies, she didn\u2019t leave an heir to speak of her \u2013 they all died in childhood -. She rose to the throne at the end of the XVIII century, because there was basically no other protestant heirs in the\u00a0Stuart\u00a0<\/em>line. This is why, the fact that she supervised the war with France, considered the First World War of modern times, as well as the union between England and Scotland to shape Great Britain; and she also faced the bitter national division, between the\u00a0Whigs\u00a0<\/em>and the\u00a0Tories\u00a0<\/em>to obtain increased influence\u00a0as the new political\u00a0bipartite\u00a0system grew.<\/p>\n

For many reasons, Anne was clearly not an ideal candidate to\u00a0Queen or ruler. She was constantly sick and had a limited educational background. As a consequence, she was always surrounded by people who competed for her favour both through trust and love.\u00a0Anne<\/em>\u00a0was very sensitive and vulnerable and those more astute than her, used her weaknesses to their own advantage… This is apparent in the film\u2026<\/p>\n

This said, which turns this amoral fable into gold, is still the work and vision of\u00a0Lanthimos<\/em>. This is because\u00a0he opts for the\u00a0rarity and insanity of daily life of the human behaviour of these characters, which seem contemporary, and which delves in their emotions farther than the impact of their socio political acts.\u00a0Is there a historical narrative? Yes! But is takes second place.\u00a0Yorgos\u00a0<\/em>has managed to redefine and transgress this British period and has created something that is completely unique, unmistakeable and inspiring.<\/p>\n

Lanthimos is an enigmatic individual who has the surprising ability to convey and communicate through his films. There is a kind of subliminal magic to his story telling through his films; it\u00b4s a type of alchemy in which he manages to make you ask yourself questions even days after watching his films. He can be highly provocative in all senses.<\/p>\n

Likewise, one of The Favourite<\/em>\u2019s major virtues is the women who star in it –\u00a0Rachel Weisz\u00a0<\/em>is absolutely\u00a0incredible,\u00a0Olivia Colman is a goddess and<\/em>\u00a0Emma Stone\u00a0<\/em>is highly gifted\u00a0in her capacities\u00a0-.\u00a0All three of them play powerful women but who are also fragile, capricious, jealous, who get enraged and as with most people and are full of defects. Three roles that very well portrayed and spectacularly acted, and which Yorgos had been dreaming of for a while.\u00a0\u00a0However, unfortunately, it\u2019s not common enough to find works of this genre.<\/p>\n

In The Favourite<\/em>, the women shoot pigeons, gallop on horses, run along hallways, physically seduce men in the forest and have sex.<\/p>\n

Although as I mentioned at the beginning, The Favourite<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>is based on a real story, but both\u00a0Lanthimos\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0McNamara\u00a0<\/em>use a certain amount of artistic licence in the film. This is because, although there is a fundamental reality in the main events\u00a0and within the frame of history, their main concern is to explore these three women. This was always their main goal and the reason why they stuck to historical veracity when it was useful to the plot but when it wasn\u2019t\u2026they sidestepped it. Even so, the end result is very close to reality (which I will detail at the end of this post).<\/p>\n

To sum up, I\u2019m convinced that The Favourite<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>is going to be a strong Oscar candidate. Meanwhile, I hope you go to see it and that you enjoy it as much as I did.<\/p>\n

(*)<\/strong> Photos: Frames of the movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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