Review by EUyeshima

I had been curious about the unfettered praise Kristen Stewart has been receiving for her performance as Diana. It's not an uncanny impersonation but more a vivid rendering of a woman lost in her rarefied circumstances. Taking place over just three days during the holidays in 1991, this is far less a historical recounting and more a fictionalized psychodrama that contains moments that alternate quickly between affecting and frustrating. Director Pablo Larrain follows the same framework he used in "Jackie", and here the sense of self-entrapment felt even more realistic even with fantasy sequences that border on the absurd. The appropriately costumed and coiffed Stewart definitely leaves her mark here, but don't expect a rosy picture of the People's Princess.