Amalia Nafal Bosch

Whoever wrote this movie hates Diana Spencer. Every other character is portrayed showing Diana kindness and patience while she’s erratic and rude. She’s boiled down to a mentally ill problem that everyone must work around. The only redeeming scenes are those involving the kids and even that is a stretch as she’s shown at times being a bad mother, sharing an inappropriate amount of her emotional toil with William. I’ll admit I’m biased as I do subscribe to the modern legend of Diana the humanitarian, the people’s princess, too sensitive for the harsh cold inhumanity of being a royal, a victim of the firm, but this portrayal isn’t just a bit more flawed than her public persona this movie portrays a bad person which I really don’t think she was. The affair is treated almost entirely as Camilla’s fault with little if any of Diana’s anger being directed towards.Charles. Although, I did appreciate Charles being humanized a bit as he is, after all, also a victim of the firm. I really don’t think Stewart’s performance is anywhere near Oscar level, I had a hard time separating her own mannerisms from the character she’s supposed to be playing. I understand the Academy Awards are affected by money and popularity and campaigning (or whatever it was Weinstein did) but even then, Kristen’s performance was so riddled with her signature grimaces and lip pursing it took me out of the movie entirely. Lastly, putting a filter of the footage, or shooting it with film, does not a good movie make. The 2020s are all about nostalgia and the “vintage” but at some point you do actually need quality, aesthetics are not enough. I welcome any objections as I could be wrong, I’m certainly not on any film festival award panel, but if this movie is “art” or by any measure good enough to be heralded as outstanding then my eyes must be failing me and my taste must have left me.