Favourite,The

Extraordinary sets and costumes and a wonderful classical soundtrack highlight this engaging, factually based, well-acted, unusual, risqué, witty, star-dotted (Nicholas Hoult, Joe Alwyn, Mark Gatiss, James Smith, and Robert Harley), 2-hour, baroque period piece in which jealousy, bitterness, and tensions arise when the beautiful, ambitious Baroness Abigail Masham (Emma Stone), who has fallen on hard times, reconnects with her influential, bisexual cousin Lady Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Weisz), at the British court in London during the war with France to seek a servant's job and quickly tries to compete with her cousin to vie for the affections and attention of disabled, sickly Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) in the early 1700s.
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