Lanthimos serves up a right royal romp
The Favourite is an extravagantly strange, sublimely bawdy film that can count three phenomenal performances from phenomenal actresses amongst its heaped achievements.
The Favourite: Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, Nationwide, 15A,Rating:*****
RBG: Directed by Julie Cohen and Betsy West, Nationwide, PG,Rating:****
Yorgos Lanthimos wouldn’t be the first name you’d pick to direct a period farce about an 18th-century English queen. Conventional cinema wisdom would say there’s nothing in the Greek’s uniquely oddball body of work – from Dogtooth to The Killing of a Sacred Deer – to suggest he’d be a good fit for a corsets ...
