Favourite

Rating: 8/10 (30 January 2020)

Complex and very intriguing script.
Extremely powerful performances.
Linear instrumental soundtrack.
Sensational framework.
Magnificent photography.
Great dialogues.
So let's jump to the possible defect of the clearest film of all, the "cut-off" ending for inattentive looks:
I imagine that the last scene may have seemed brooding to some. However, the idea seemed to me to be exactly that of generating a latent nuisance but well contextualized. The winner who, when he realizes, is the loser. Abigail was just another rabbit in the queen's life. Sarah lost what most earned her lifelong efforts, power, but made it clear that Abigail wouldn't exactly be a winner either. Queen Anne, always imprisoned by her own ghosts, ends up doomed in the shadow of her own madness. The film is about the verb "to lose".
It remains to be made clear that the last scene is one of the best done rape scenes in the history of cinema. Their empty faces. Of the queen who, in theory, should feel the pleasure, and stares melancholy at the horizon. Of Abigail who realizes that what she had fought for could be, in short, her prison. Rabbits gently enter a background that, however, does not remove the features of both.