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THE FAVOURITE (2018) movie review & haiku

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THE FAVOURITE (2018) movie review

Director Yorgos Lanthimos created the most uncomfortable, modern, mean, and sexually charged period palace story you’ve likely ever seen. This throws layers and layers of proper Elizabethan costuming over a simple survival of the fittest – all competing for the favor of one crazed Queen.

The country at war and in uproar, yet she needs constant affirmation about her looks and attention to her needs.

Emma Stone finds herself face down in the mud and must find ways to enter the palace and stay in the good graces of those in power or station above her. Rachel Weisz basically runs the country as confidante to the Queen, played perfectly by Olivia Colman.

Two women play the same game with very different motives, forcing a modern audience into the most modern of period pieces to ask what they would do in dire circumstances like those – save your country or save yourself?

REVIEW in HAIKU:

ladies in waiting

Victorian bourgeoisie

use sex to control

MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (2017) movie review

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When a novel becomes a film we all get front row seats on a trek into the familiar. As promised, it’s a lovely shady whodunit – every passenger a suspect, every side-glance a confession of guilt. Star-studded, humorous, curious, mysterious, we step onto the train platform with the famous detective Hercule Poirot in order to solve a crime and a murder. The old tale and BBC favorite has been masterfully reimagined by Kenneth Branagh, both director and main character.From point A to point B, this dangerous journey is thwarted with clues and interviews captured from every creative camera angle. Bright colors glint over the snowy landscape as crisply cast characters reveal nothing until the dastardly finale. It’s a brilliant film, beautifully created and worth seeing.