Film Review: The Favourite

The Favourite is a period comedy-drama directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, starring Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone. Loosely based on true events, Sarah Churchill (Weisz) is "The Favourite" to the useless Queen Anne, (Colman) she essentially rules the country in the name of the Queen, this routine is eventually broken by the arrival of her …