A QUEEN’S LOVERS
“You’re jealous,” Olivia Colman’s sickly and often childlike Queen Anne of Britain says with relish to her consort and lover, Sarah the Duchess of Marlborough, in The Favourite—a wild, queer romp through the 18th-century court of the lesser known monarch.
The delicious satire from) pits Rachel Weisz’s Sarah against Emma Stone’s Abigail, a lady fallen from grace who’ll stop at nothing to regain her position, and thus, the pair engage in a naughty rivalry for Anne’s affection that delights the gout-ridden 17th-century queen.
