So Inaccurate the Director Should Have Used Fictional Women

Rating: 3/10 (16 May 2020)

To tell this kind of story...
why make it about Queen Anne., Sarah Churchill, the Duchess of Marlborough, and Abigail? These are real people whose lives can be researched.
Queen Anne loved her husband and had many children by him. Sarah was PASSIONATELY in love with her husband, the Duke, Winston Churchill's ancestor and one of the greatest military strategists and leaders of all time. Sarah was NOT bisexual or gay. Abigail Masham, not sure, but very doubtful she had an affair with the Queen.
If you want to see a more accurate portrayal of the Sarah-Anne relationship, get The First Churchills, a TV series from the BBC, from your library's interlibrary loan or Amazon or wherever. I think the release date was 1971.
The movie has many other inaccuracies: Anne was a few years YOUNGER than Sarah, in this film she is quite a bit older. Sarah had light hair, they couldn't even bother to put the correct wig color on the actress Rachel Weisz. The men are not portrayed realistically at all. It's fine to take a few liberties with history, but The Favourite goes way beyond this. If it were being played strictly for comedy, that would excuse this, but it is not. It is too dark for that. The Blackadder series was better, that played British history entirely for laughs and therefore no accuracy at all was expected.
Also, I agree with reviewers who thought the language and swearing were too geared toward 2018 moviegoers. Why not just do a film about a Lesbian triangle and woman power then, why revise history yet again to this extent?