British Comedy Guide
The Favourite. Queen Anne (Olivia Colman)
The Favourite

The Favourite

  • 2019 film

Olivia Colman stars as a frail Queen Anne in this film from the director of The Lobster. Also features Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, Nicholas Hoult, Joe Alwyn, James Smith and more.

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Olivia Colman wins best actress award in Venice

British star honoured for her role as Queen Anne in Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos's quirky period comedy The Favourite. The film also won the grand jury prize, the festival's second-most prestigious.

Lin Jenkins, The Guardian, 8th September 2018

Hilarious royal comedy The Favourite leads in Venice

Wicked and powerful women took the Venice film festival by storm on Thursday with a viciously funny British period comedy, The Favourite, already being talked of as an Oscar contender.

The Straits Times, 31st August 2018

Review: The Favourite - cheeky and hilarious

All this bawdiness and chicanery would be entertaining enough, but it is given a raucous spin by Lanthimos, working from a very funny original screenplay.

Brian Viner, Daily Mail, 31st August 2018

The Favourite review

Yorgos Lanthimos brings scabrous energy to this dark comedy of 18th-century court intrigue and Colman excels herself.

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 30th August 2018

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