{"id":1373,"date":"2019-02-19T15:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T22:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2019-01-31T20:26:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T03:26:36","slug":"movie-the-favourite-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/19\/movie-the-favourite-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: The Favourite (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheThe Favourite
\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2018
\nRating: R
\nLength: 119 minutes \/ 1.98 hours<\/p>\n

What. The. Favourite. For those of us watching all of this year\u2019s Best Picture nominees,\u00a0The Favourite<\/em>\u00a0(2018) is certainly the token \u201cartsy\u201d film of the set. It felt like it was following in the footsteps of last year\u2019s\u00a0Phantom Thread<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(2017) in that the set decoration and costume design were exquisite, despite the\u2014let\u2019s face it\u2014weird characters. Regarding\u00a0the plot, though, I did find\u00a0The Favourite<\/em>\u00a0to parallel the events in the 1950 Best Picture winner,\u00a0All About Eve<\/em>. While its art is on full display for all to see,\u00a0The Favourite<\/em>\u00a0is a bit more than how it looks.<\/p>\n

Aside from the aforementioned set decoration and costume design, I have to applaud this movie\u2019s cinematography. I\u2019d wager that it\u2019ll win in these three categories, but the cinematography stands out because it\u2019s so different from most films. Heavily utilizing wide-angle fisheye lenses, as well as copious amounts of natural light (perhaps as an aesthetic homage to Kubrick\u2019s\u00a0Barry Lyndon<\/em>\u00a0(1975), which also shares a somewhat similar plot), the continual movement of the camera is both brilliant and jarring. This accentuates the awkward and uncomfortable situations these characters put themselves in for the duration.<\/p>\n

While\u00a0The Favourite<\/em>\u00a0is pretty to look at, the characters and their interactions reveal the true \u201cartsy\u201d elements of the film. From tons of lesbian overtones to odd actions and dialogue that is distinctly modern in its vulgarity, some moments definitely made me cringe. All that being said, the nuance and subtlety of the actors\u2019 fantastic performances allowed so much to be said without uttering a word.\u00a0The Favourite<\/em>\u00a0excels in the \u201cshow, don\u2019t tell\u201d mentality by also including many parallels and realizations that nothing has changed for these characters. Fortunately, moments of levity, especially with Nicholas Hoult\u2019s character, help to keep this movie from getting too dark.<\/p>\n

A striking and considerably \u201cartsy\u201d film, I give\u00a0The Favourite<\/em>\u00a04.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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The Favourite Year: 2018 Rating: R Length: 119 minutes \/ 1.98 hours What. The. Favourite. For those of us watching all of this year\u2019s Best Picture nominees,\u00a0The Favourite\u00a0(2018) is certainly the token \u201cartsy\u201d film of the set. It felt like it was following in the footsteps of last year\u2019s\u00a0Phantom Thread\u00a0(2017) in that the set decoration […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2,370,369],"tags":[1020,1669,1665,1668,1672,1670,405,1664,13,1667,1152,1666,8,1671,1662,1663],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-0-stars","category-movie","category-nominee","category-oscar","tag-1020","tag-all-about-eve","tag-artsy","tag-barry-lyndon","tag-cinematography","tag-costume-design","tag-emma-stone","tag-lesbian","tag-movie","tag-nicholas-hoult","tag-phantom-thread","tag-queen-anne","tag-review","tag-set-design","tag-the-favourite","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1378,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions\/1378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}