Spencer

The marriage of Princess Diana and Prince Charles has long since grown cold. Though rumours of affairs and a divorce abound, peace is ordained for the Christmas festivities at Sandringham. There’s eating and drinking, shooting and hunting. Diana knows the game. But this year, things will be a whole lot different. Featuring a mesmerising lead performance from Kristen Stewart, Spencer is a haunting re- imagining of what might have happened during those few fateful days from director Pablo Larraín (Jackie) and writer Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders), with music from Jonny Greenwood.

‘We all grew up understanding what a fairytale is, but Diana Spencer changed the paradigm, and the idealised icons that pop culture creates, forever. This is the story of a princess who decided not to become a queen but chose to build her identity by herself. It’s an upside-down fairytale… We did extensive research about her, Royal Christmas traditions, and the anecdotes of ghosts at Sandringham House. Yet the Royal family is notoriously discrete. They may appear publicly on some occasions, but at some point, the doors close, and once they are, you don’t know what is happening. That gives a lot to fiction; that was our work. We didn’t aim to make a docudrama, we wanted to create something by taking elements of the real, and then using imagination, to tell the life of a woman with the tools of cinema.’

Pablo Larraín, Director