![]() Major Alistar Gregory (Timothy Spall) leads the staff to impose order upon her. She finds herself more and more isolated. Diana (Kristen Stewart) is driving herself and arrives late. The British royal family is gathering to spend Christmas at a royal estate. #SMOOVIE SPENCER MOVIE#Sally Hawkins has a smallish role as the only member of the household staff who Diana can deal with, and as always, she carries the movie off with her and made me want it to just be about her instead. But it's a very weird performance, and extremely hard to warm to. I think she gives the performance Larrain wants her to give. Kristen Stewart was just nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award at the time I'm writing this comment, and her performance is good I guess. You can empathize with her, because she's clearly a very troubled woman going through a crisis, but that doesn't mean you necessarily want to spend time with her. Otherwise, you're just stuck with a very bizarre woman wandering around a big house in nice clothes for two hours. You have to bring a lot of knowledge of Diana's story to this movie for it to completely make it worthwhile. But it's also very one note, and worst, it doesn't make Diana come alive as a person or character. It's oppressive, which fits the subject matter, so I get that. There have been so many versions of this story, on screen and in print, that what's the point of doing yet another if you're not going to do something daring with it? But the movie is a bit much to take. On the one hand, I liked Larrain's decision to give the film a horror movie vibe, as if the demons plaguing Diana are literally real. at the UCSF Mission Bay Community Center, 1675 Owens (at Sixth Street), S.F.I had a mixed reaction to "Spencer," Pablo Larrain's film about three days in the life of Princess Diana as she's trapped in Windsor over the Christmas holiday with a family who doesn't want her and who she hates. Gay Men's Chorus perform, and the dough goes to the Breakthrough Foundation, at 7 p.m. Jazz smoothie Spencer Day and the much-adored S.F. The idea of the World AIDS Day Benefit, "An Evening of Remembrance and Hope," might give you a lump in your throat, but the entertainment ought to cheer you up. Admission is $10-15 call 826-5750 or visit - Hiya Swanhuyser 30) at the Marsh, 1062 Valencia (at 21st Street), S.F. In other words, fear not the words "family holiday show," because this year's production, Nutcracker Nutz & Boltz, is a good bet to leave you looking at mousetraps, rusted hammers, and possibly your own sweater a little differently, no matter how old you are. The found-object puppet company's director, Liebe Wetzel, is brilliant: Everything she touches turns to funny, and she's quite grabby. Admission is $10-20 call 759-1047 or visit pullover.Īfter Lunatique Fantastique's family holiday show last year, seven of us - all adults - lurched out of the theater weak from having laughed so much. 17) at the Off-Market Theater, 965 Mission (at Fifth Street), S.F. President Augie Victor Douglas leads the nation to doom while a bankrupt Catholic Church sells all of its relics on eBay - except one very small piece of holy skin, which contains the DNA of the savior.Įxamining religion, biotechnology, corruption, and downright absurdity, Foreskin opens at 8 p.m. A fabulously blasphemous production, the satiric piece catapults us into the year 2044, during which power-hungry U.S. We're talking about his foreskin, the star of a new musical aptly titled The Foreskin of Christ. Or at least it deals with the little bit of him reportedly removed in a religious ritual held on the eighth day of his life. It's not Jesus Christ Superstar, but it does deal with the son of God. Admission is $17-20 call 503-0437 or visit - Karen Macklin 18) at the Shelton Theater, 533 Sutter (at Powell), S.F. From Steve Martin's The Zig-Zag Woman (about a waitress who takes drastic measures in search of a cure for loneliness) to Tennessee Williams' The Case of the Crushed Petunias (which finds a socially secluded woman forced to confront the man who destroyed her treasured flower garden), the dramas and the movies all touch on the natural urge humans have to communicate, despite the worldly forces that attempt to stop us. If you feel the same, prepare your ears and eyes for something a little different, as the innovative theater company La Vache Enragée presents three short plays interspersed with silent films, in turn accompanied by live - and lively - original orchestrations, for the production "Safe Words - Loud Silences: The Shorts Project." Though the genres are triply pleasing, the show floats on one common theme: people coming together in the face of a world coming apart. I get tired of the arts scene in our hard-to-categorize city always being divvied up into neat slots. ![]()
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