![]() ![]() Did that film prepare you for The Favourite ? You’ve previously had experience crafting spartan histories with Macbeth. Here we discuss locations, scale, and rabbit cages. Her work has also been featured in Justin Kurzel’s The Snowtown Murders (2011) and Macbeth (2015), and Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake (2015). Her work on The Favourite has won her the British Academy of Film and Television Award for Best Production Design and an Art Directors’ Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design. The Favourite has been nominated for ten Academy Awards, including one for Fiona Crombie, the film’s production designer. It’s clear the proceedings take place in locations built from, as Lady Sarah says, “monstrous extravagance.” The film often dances playfully with period authenticity and anachronism, swirling all its pieces together into a lush but soured cake. The locations of the film also unsettle, with massive rooms that dwarf The Favourite’s trio with a mixture of opulence and emptiness. The film’s cinematography by Robbie Ryan employs fish-eye lenses, knee-level camera angles, and whiplash movements to unease the audience. It’s an absurdist vision of court life, where pointed cruelty and misdirection nips at the Queen, incapacitating her as much as does her gout. Set in England’s royal court during the early 18th century, The Favourite takes a dark look into the life of Queen Anne, a monarch bisected by the punitive Lady Sarah Marlborough and the abating Abigail Masham. The Favourite is the latest work from Yorgos Lanthimos, the creator of Dogtooth, The Lobster, and The Killing of a Sacred Deer. We had to do all sorts of calculations about weight distribution. I remember there being concern about the weight of the bed and whether it would be too heavy for the wooden floor and the ceiling below. The bed is a fairly accurate queen’s bed, but we pushed the scale so that it really towered in the room. ![]() ![]() It was 14 feet high with four mattresses and layers of beautiful bedding. Queen Anne’s bed was hand built, hand carved and painted. ![]()
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