The most conventional Lanthimos movie

Rating: 10/10 (24 March 2019)

This movie is great fun. Women, while always lacking in their contributions to science or art or philosophy, were never absent from the realms of power, as queens and female prime ministers, sometimes hysterical, but often extremely cruel, are well known through history. This movie sheds some light on the intrigue and backstabbing dealings on the court of Queen Anne, and shows that when sociopathy is concerned, women have it all over men, and that evil potential has been cultivated on the British isles, to the benefit of the aristocratic and powerful yet de generate, and via the violent abuse of the Indian and countless other imperial and later shrunken UK subjects, since Anne to Victorian age to Margaret the iron witch. A quirky, fun and cynical look into the British court, through the wise Greek eyes. Excellent!