Leave it to Yorgos Lanthimos to offer up the most wickedly delicious romance of the Oscar season with “The Favourite.” He turns the palace of Queen Anne (Globe-winner Olivia Colman) into a playground and battlefield, as rival cousins, Sarah (Rachel Weisz) and Abigail (Emma Stone), curry favor by manipulating her affections.And the director relied on his go-to editor, Yorgos Mavropsaridis, to navigate the ups and downs of Abigail and Sarah’s power struggle without ever losing sight of the queen’s dominance.
At the same time, Mavropsaridis made the wild shifts in tone seem plausible, given the absurdities and eccentricities that occur the palace.“I was presented with a first assembly and Abigail succeeded in getting the favor of the queen and then what?,” said Mavropsaridis.
“It became a more existential situation about the queen, which is more interesting.”This transference of emphasis from Abigail’s goal to achieve
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