Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic“Spencer,” Pablo Larraín’s magnificent movie about Princess Diana and how she freed herself from the life she chose, the life that made her a star, and the life that was killing her, opens with a sequence that’s staged, with a deadpan wink, to look like a thriller.
At the Sandringham Estate, a preposterously large six-story country mansion that stands on 20,000 acres of the Norfolk Coast, a military convoy arrives, toting crates that look like they must contain oversize weapons.
But no, they’re just carrying food — cascades of fruit and vegetables, lobsters the size of AK-47s. It’s all in preparation for the three-day Christmas weekend, which the British royal family will be spending at Sandringham.
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