The Favourite is wonderfully unorthodox. It deconstructs the period piece genre with dark humor, risqué dialogue, social commentary, absurd satire, and historical fiction. This is all anchored by tragic heart. Characters are thoroughly dynamic, layered, and motivated. Because each protagonist is so complex, the arcs feel earned yet surprising. The magnetic acting reinforces everything with physicality, intensity, vulnerability, timing, evolution, chemistry, and purpose. Consequently, its themes of classism, control, sexuality, love, excess, captivity, honesty, morality, and politics are intensified. The Favourite is a refreshing whirlwind of creative wit and profound emotions.
The Favourite has daring style, tension, tones, and juxtaposition. The isolating imagery uses motion, lenses, natural lighting, angles, framing, and composition. Its editing adds chapters, inserts, slo-mo, intercuts, match cuts, montages, and dissolves. The stark sound utilizes emphasis, smash cuts, action, silence, offscreens, and split cuts. Its classical music is atmospheric, ominous, fitting, operatic, and recurring. The opulent production design offers an era, tangibility, character cues, and symbolic colors. Its career-defining cast is led by perfectly placed stars. The effects supply stunts, makeup, blood, and animal training. Overall, The Favourite is maximized storytelling.
Writing: 10/10
Direction: 10/10
Cinematography: 10/10
Acting: 10/10
Editing: 9/10
Sound: 8/10
Score/Soundtrack: 9/10
Production Design: 10/10
Casting: 10/10
Effects: 7/10
Overall Score: 9.3/10
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