Kristen Stewart Fully Commits to a Wild, Messy Fever Dream in ‘Spencer’

We’re told at the outset of Spencer that the film is a “fable” taken from real life. I suppose this is director Pablo Larraín’s way of letting us know that his film, written by Steven Knight, isn’t based on actual, factual events in the lives of Princess Diana (Kristen Stewart) and the British Royal Family. But Spencer is less a tale with a moral lesson at its heart, than it is a confounding fever dream. We meet Diana as she is bound for Sandringham House, the Queen’s estate in Norfolk, on Christmas Eve 1991. The Wales’ marriage is on the… Read Full Article