One-Line Review: The Favourite (6 Stars)

Rating: 6/10 (13 January 2019)

Yorgos Lanthimos's fascinating period drama The Favourite about two foxy court mistresses' (Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone) unofficial competition to become "the favourite" of the Queen of England (Olivia Colman) in the early 1700s is so rich in its production values and costumes, so melodious and non-anachronistic in its background score, so wild in its general writing, so highbrow in its dialogues, so highly qualitative in its humor lines, so fancifully breathtaking its three lead actresses are, and so bizarre in its camera work (the use of fisheye lens and pulley effect) that I almost forgot about the proceedings that is as humdrum as a boring Sunday morning in this early 2000s. TN.