PREVIEW: Spencer (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Kristen Stewart (Personal Shopper), Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner), Jack Farthing (Official Secrets), Sean Harris (The Green Knight), Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water), Jack Nielen (film debut), Freddie Spry (film debut), Stella Gonet (How I Live Now), Richard Sammel (Casino Royale), Olga Hellsing (film debut), Thomas Douglas (film debut), Mathias Wolkowski (Commitment Phobia), Oriana Gordon (film debut), Amy Manson (Harrigan), Ryan Wichert (Happily Never After), John Keogh (The Pianist), Niklas Kohrt (Dead), Elizabeth Berrington (Last Night in Soho)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Pablo Larraín (Jackie), director, producer; Steven Knight (Dirty Pretty Things), writer; Maren Ade (Toni Erdmann), Jonas Dornbach (Zepp), Janine Jackowski (Sleeping Sickness), Juan de Dios Larraín (No) and Paul Webster (Atonement), producers; Jonny Greenwood (There Will Be Blood), composer; Claire Mathon (Portrait of a Lady on Fire), cinematographer; Sebastián Sepúlveda (The Year of the Tiger), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In 1991, Princess Diana (Stewart) spends the Christmas period with her cold husband, Prince Charles (Farthing), and the Royal Family at their estate in Sandringham, Norfolk. Over a three-day period, she contemplates making an earth-shattering decision…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Kristen Stewart delivers a performance worthy of a princess as the revered Diana in this fictional take on a major moment in the late royalty’s life.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 5TH NOVEMBER 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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