Spencer

Spencer (2021) is a psychological drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Pablo Larraín. It unfolds over three days at the Sandringham estate during Christmas, when Princess Diana — played by Kristen Stewart — quietly decides she is done.

There are formal dinners, a pheasant hunt, a dress code for every hour of the day. Diana shows up and wears the right clothes and says almost nothing. Timothy Spall watches her. Sally Hawkins tries to reach her. The palace runs on ritual, and the ritual is suffocating her. Stewart earned an Academy Award nomination for a performance that is less imitation than it is inhabitation.

Larraín had already mapped this terrain with Jackie — portraits of women swallowed whole by public mythology. Spencer is the surname Diana carried before the marriage, and the one she wants back. Stream Spencer (2021) online on iFILM.