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Rating of
4/4
An effective contrast
Rod - wrote on 05/20/2019
I liked it way more than I hoped for. The best thing about this film is the use of CONTRAST. A cinematography that refuses to be taken seriously and an editing and music that are deliberately distracting perfectly compliment the authenticity of the story and costume and set designs with on-point performances by a reliable trio of Stone, Weisz and Colman. Despite the playfulness of these cinematic aspects, it was successful on highlighting important turning points and crucial delivery of messages. The contrast reflects the overall theme of contained tension of the characters within the overarching idea of power struggle and gaining favors. I was really impressed by the bold and risky move by the director Yorgos Lanthimos by creating a piece using elements that are unlikely to work …
Rating of
1/4
Very odd costume drama, a parody perhaps
FilmCrave User - wrote on 01/23/2019
Very odd fim. A costume drama, with eleborate costumes, as you would expect,, but little lies underneath. The cotume designers clearly had a field day with tight corsets, crinolines and elborate wigs for the men; while the women are beautifully coiffed and clean, difficult, one would have thought, for the early 18th century. The settings are filmed voluptuously: great carved four poster beds, wooden floors, walls hung with fine tapestries. There are long corridors, lit at night by vast arrays of candles, like some Gothic horror show. There are set pieces with grotesqye wobbling naked flesh, rotten fruit, rabbits running around helplessly like the 17 children the queen has lost. It is tragi-pathos on a grand scale, filmes through a distorting lens at time to make everythin g even more …
