Ani Bundel: 'Spencer,' the latest Princess Diana movie, openly embraces its artifice, creating an impressionistic atmosphere that is violently and relentlessly unrealistic.
But though the film is billed partially as a biographical drama, there is little here that is trying to make sense of Diana’s actual life or legacy.
“Spencer” opens with the words “A fable based on a true tragedy.” One could argue every story about Diana Spencer is such. “Spencer” opens with the words “A fable based on a true tragedy.” One could argue every story about Diana Spencer is such,to the salacious faux docuseries airing on various cable outlets. But this film is rare in that it openly embraces its artifice, creating an impressionistic atmosphere rather than one that pretends to tell the whole truth.
The film’s narrative lacks much of a traditional structure, feeling more like a waking nightmare. It opens with a somehow lost Diana . She is magically alone, having left behind all security and paparazzi, and randomly walks into a roadside teashop looking a bit like a kidnapping victim who has finally escaped her captors after a decade away.
Soon enough Diana has found her way to the castle and settled in under the watchful eye of Sandringham’s Major Alistair Gregory . Time is told by the changing of preordained outfits, and the activities mostly involve extensive and rich meals Diana is forced to choke down before vomiting them back up. The camera stays trained on Diana in her gilded cage, the rest of the royal family sliding in and out of focus around her.
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