Deborah Ross

A riveting cheese dream of a film: Spencer reviewed

Kristen Stewart looks nothing like Diana but is somehow Diana. I think it’s called ‘great acting’

Kristen Stewart's Diana is sad, fragile, volatile, lost, yearns for love, cannot find it, but she also has the strength not to play ball.​ Photo: Claire Mathon 
issue 06 November 2021

Go see Pablo Larrain’s Spencer, which stars Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana, and the next day you will wonder: did I go to the cinema last night or did I have a cheese dream? Did she really clear the room of staff by saying she wished to masturbate, or was it the cheddar and crackers I foolishly had before bed? This is a total cheese dream of a film —did she really just eat a pearl? — but also it’s a riveting one as well as a thrillingly entertaining one.

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