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and filmmaker Pablo Larraín assiduously wanted to avoid anything resembling a conventional biopic feel when exploring the suffocatingly cloistered and constantly scrutinized life of Princess Diana of Wales over the course of the Christmas holiday weekend with her in-laws, England’s Royal Family, in 1991.
Instead, they were looking to craft an impressionistic, fable-like take on Diana’s discomfort in her regal role. In contrast to Larraín’s deep research dive into the seemingly never-ending accounts of the late princess’ relentlessly dissected existence, Knight took a different tack altogether.
“I didn’t watch any documentaries or read any books or watch any fiction,” Knight told Deadline at the recent Contenders Film: New York awards-season event, choosing instead to go directly to sources who were actually in Diana’s orbit during those troubling family gatherings. “I managed to get hold of people who were actually there for that weekend and managed to get true stories.
From those intimate accounts, Knight weaved together his fable, punctuated with fictionalized flourishes dreamed up by Larraín: she bristles at every attempt by her husband Charles and his family to control her behavior; she deepens her bonds with her beloved sons; she’s haunted by another ill-fated royal bride, Anne Boleyn; and she grows alternately suspicious of the intentions and reliant upon the confidences of the royal servants attending her.
The resulting tale – which has become a frontrunner in this season’s award competitions after its Venice Film Festival premiere and November 5 opening – illustrates Diana’s abiding sense of isolation and alienation in mesmerizingly dreamlike terms that nevertheless feel utterly real, as Knight’s screenplay reveals.
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