As I know quite a lot about Sarah Duchess of Marlborough and her relationship with Queen Anne I was looking forward to this film. Not only did the storyline contain events which did not happen (for example Sarah's fall from a horse and the subsequent scarring) the portrayal of the Queen was insulting if not downright degrading. Queen Anne might have had her faults but she was actually politically aware and far from being the gibbering imbecile portrayed here. For me the film had an unwholesome atmosphere that stayed with me for days - unsavoury doesn't begin to describe it. I'm gay so the portrayal of same-sex relationships are no problem for me, but it was the grubby, foul-mouthed, ugliness of the whole thing that troubled me. It just came across as a film about the cruel sexual abuse of a vulnerable, disabled woman. I just wish I could unsee this film. Ugh.
Review of The Favourite
