The return of the wide angle shot.

Rating: Null/10 (5 January 2019)

Three character leads, all female. Quite a feat in itself. There's the queen. Two competing females surrounding her. Two male characters supplementing those functions. Plus a lover. Which makes for a nice geometrical figure, a hexagon one might say, and the narration balances it out very nicely, in the natural top-to-bottom way. Thus making for an intellectually and aesthetically pleasing experience.
The film employs a few techniques you would normally consider gimmickry, like the application of very wide angle shots, but here they're effectively not. I.e. where wide angles are often combined with closeups for the distortive effect, in this movie they actually do provide you with panoramic views of even small places, and organically blend into an overall coherent visual concept.
There's some sources the film appears to draw from, like The Draughtsman's Contract and Barry Lyndon, but it confidently implements its own handwriting throughout. Locations, costumes and production design are superb. Music fitting. The color palette leans more towards a natural tone. Lighting is great. And personally I very much appreciated what seems to be a complete absence of steadicam photography.
Overall one of the very, very few contemporary films actually worth the price of admission.