イギリスのダイアナ元皇太子妃の半生を描いた初の劇場用ドキュメンタリー。1981年にチャールズ皇太子と婚約する数週間前から1996年の突然の死までの約16年間にスポットを当てる。 チャールズ皇太子とのなれそめ、歴史に残るロイヤルウェディング、息子たちの誕生、離婚にまつわる様々なスキャンダル、政治さえも動かした慈善活動、そして衝撃的な事故死と世界中が悲しみに暮れた葬儀。当時のニュース映像やホームビデオなどあらゆるアーカイブから厳選した映像をつなぎ合わせ、ダイアナの生きた軌跡をありのままに振り返っていく。 監督は「本当の僕を教えて」でアカデミー短編ドキュメンタリー賞にノミネートされたエド・パーキンズ。
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監督: Ed Perkins
脚本: Ed Perkins
音楽: Martin Phipps
制作: サイモン・チン / ジョナサン・チン / Will Clarke
制作会社: Lightbox Entertainment
This is a very well researched chronology of the life of a woman who took the world's media by the scruff of the neck in a way that had never happened before, nor is likely to again. Using actuality from her engagement to the Prince of Wales through to her eventual death, Ed Perkins delivers a largely recycled and one-sided depiction of this flawed human being that pays scant regard to her numerous critics and is somewhat annoyingly peppered with the out of vision views of anonymous, uncredited, talking heads - some of whom are more recognisable (e.g. Dr. David Starkey) and others less so as it progresses. There is no doubt it is a well crafted film and is a testament to archivists the world over who have carefully preserved such historical footage for us to remember now, 25 years after her fatal car crash. I have to say that I found most of the adulatory vox pops cringe-makingly embarrassing - most of the contributors here knew no more about the intimacies of the royal marriage than anyone in the cinema watching. The lack of any semblance of a neutral narrative thread, I felt, leads to an interesting retrospective that tells us little fact, but fuels the divisive epitaph of a woman, and a relationship, about which it impossible to generalise. Given the scenes seen recently in London as Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her platinum jubilee, it also seems to completely misunderstand the dynamic between the monarchy and the citizens of Britain with assertions that somehow the idolisation of this Princess would remain far longer in the minds of the populace than they certainly do amongst the bottom-feeding media. Nothing at all new to see here.
