"Wickedly funny and endlessly entertaining, this five-star new release is an extraordinary movie. It’s also quite insane."--Wenlei Ma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYb-wkeh...RguJAndgJE
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By Yorgos Lanthimos, the director who brought us "The Lobster." Golden Globe nomination for best picture.
"Wickedly funny and endlessly entertaining, this five-star new release is an extraordinary movie. It’s also quite insane."--Wenlei Ma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYb-wkeh...RguJAndgJE
Some inaccuracies (intentional rather than the result of unawareness), but quite irrelevant anyway if the film is half comedy. Obviously among them would be Anne not really having had pet bunnies as substitutes for the all the children she lost.
There probably was no lesbian triangle in the physical or non-Platonic sense. Women from the 18th century well into the early 20th century had a tendency to litter missives to their most dedicated allies with exaggerated endearments and "romantic friendship" sentiments. The pro-erotic and sociopolitical cognitive filters of our times then project sexual desires into that formal verbal affection and emotional loyalty, misconstruing the style as rare or unconventional rather than arguably common to the times. A blackmail threat of releasing "passionate letters to another woman" would thereby dissolve under closer scrutiny into the stuff below. Joanne Limburg: Sarah may well have found Anne’s letters dull, but she hung onto them. They were preserved along with the rest of the Duchess’s correspondence, and are now stored at the British Library. I was lucky enough to see them there, and have read the earlier ones, dating from 1683 to 1701, the year before Anne became Queen. Sarah’s description of her friend’s letter-writing style is true enough, but partial, and unkind. Anne’s letters were never intended as literary productions. What she was writing were the 17th Century equivalent of texts and emails – quick scrawls to her BFF to share her news, ask after Sarah’s health and that of her family, offers of help, condolences, requests that Sarah, as her Groom of the Stool, send or purchase little items for her – another pair of gloves, shoes better suited to the weather – and thanks when these arrived. More than anything else, they are a reflection of Anne’s feelings for Sarah, the ‘tenderness’ and ‘kindness’ she ‘has in [her] heart’. ~ |
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