Spencer

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Directed by Pablo Larraín
Produced by Pablo Larraín, Juan de Dios Larraín, Paul Webster, Maren Ade, Jonas Dornbach, and Janine Jackowski
Written by Steven Knight

With: Kristen Stewart, Timothy Spall, Jack Nielen, Freddie Spry, Jack Farthing, Sean Harris, Stella Gonet, Richard Sammel, Elizabeth Berrington, Lore Stefanek, Amy Manson, Sally Hawkins, James Harkness, and Laura Benson

Cinematography: Claire Mathon
Editing: Sebastián Sepúlveda
Music: Jonny Greenwood

Runtime: 111 min
Release Date: 05 November 2021
Aspect Ratio: 1.66 : 1
Color: Color

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Stewart exquisitely captures the trapped, tragic qualities of the late Princess of Wales in this biographical psychodrama set during a royal family Christmas in 1991, but Larraín's narrow view fails to instil the kind of deep empathy for his protagonist that he engendered in his similarly themed Jackie (2016).

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