Nominated for Best Actress 
Content warning: bulimia
Diana (Kristen Stewart), Princess of Wales, spends Christmas with the in-laws at Sandringham Castle. Her every move is scrutinized, criticized, and held against her in that icily polite British way. Her husband (Jack Farthing) is having a very public affair and she keeps dreaming of Anne Boleyn.
I am old enough to remember the Diana Years but young enough that I didn't really care. I'm not really into the fetishization that is happening with her life (there's a musical, for God's sake) and death. It seems ghoulish.
Hair, makeup, and wardrobe are the real MVPs here. From a few feet away, Stewart could have passed for Diana. She is absolutely game with trying to complete the illusion, though. There's a "wounded doe" aspect of Diana's that Stewart nails. It's something in the eyes. A mute appeal for mercy. You can see it in some of her official photographs. Anyway, the Boleyn parallels were a little on the nose for me but otherwise, this could have been an A24 horror movie with a couple of tweaks.
It's streaming on Hulu.
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