Vulnerable, elegant, flawless, with a big heart. This is the image that Lady Diana gave of herself to those around the world who admired her and followed her story. The story of a woman, albeit a princess, who wanted a normal life. The director Pablo Larraìn dedicated a biopic to her and "Spencer" is her title. In the film, the story is concentrated in a precise moment in Diana's life: it is December 1991, during the Christmas holidays with the entire royal family on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk. The marriage between her and Prince Charles has been adrift for some time now, and the rumors of various and continuous betrayals only weaken their bond. In this rather tense and unhappy atmosphere, the celebrations of Christmas together with the whole family are forcefully inserted in the sad life of the Princess as a real suffering. Here, with the help of fiction, Larrain reconstructs what might have happened within the royal walls in those apparently festive days. “Spencer” arrives in Italian cinemas with 01Distribution from 20 January 2022.
"I wanted to finally make a film that my mother liked, I've made so many that she didn't like!" Pablo Larraìn confessed laughing, presenting the film in world premiere at the 78th Venice Film Festival. “I wanted to do something that told what my mother saw in Diana. It is a complex figure, but an important part of her was her being a mother, she felt a lot of empathy towards others. She was also a very mysterious woman, and this characteristic makes her perfect to be the protagonist of a film ”.
