Diana (2013 full movie)
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Diana (2013 film)
2013 film by Oliver Hirschbiegel
For the 2021 musical performance, see Diana (musical).
Diana is a 2013 biographicaldrama film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel and written by Stephen Jeffreys. Naomi Watts stars as Diana, Princess of Wales, with Naveen Andrews, Douglas Hodge, and Geraldine James in supporting roles.[5]
Based on Kate Snell's 2001 book Diana: Her Last Love, the film focuses on the final two years of Diana's life, particularly her secret relationship with heart surgeon Hasnat Khan.
Diana had its world premiere in London on 5 September 2013 and was released in the UK on 20 September 2013.[6][7][8] The film received overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics upon release, with sharp criticism for its direction, screenplay, and Watts' portrayal of the late Princess.[7] It performed relatively well at the box office, grossing $21.7 million worldwide against a budget of $15 million.
Plot
The film depicts the last two years of Diana, Princess of Wales's life, beginning with her divorce
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There’s probably not a person on Earth who couldn’t tell you who Princess Diana is, and yet public knowledge of her is only surface deep. Oliver Hirschbiegel (Downfall) aims to settle that score with his biopic Diana. Known for his unblinking film biographies of historical figures, famous (Princess Diana) and infamous (Hitler) alike, Hirschbiegel hopes to unearth the humanity in these people, digging deeper than the surface snapshot we so often focus on. Set to turn an icon into a person, he tucks into Princess Diana like she’s a girl next door who just so happens to live in a castle.
Together, Oliver and I spoke about how the universal love story of Diana transformed the princess’s humanitarian work, why Naomi Watts was the only choice to play Diana, how he didn’t even recognize Naveen Andrews as Lost‘s Sayid until filming was done, the Royal family and filming right at the gates of the castle.
It entered the UK chart at number five in its opening weekend, taking £623,000 at the box office. This week, it dropped to number nine. Hirschbiegel, who previously made Downfall, a German-language film about the last days of Hitler, called his experiences with Diana "deja vu, because it has the same reactions in the UK as Downfall had in Germany on release". "I hope it is a matter of stepping back and looking at it afresh in a year or so, because it is a very British story and I am a very German director." He added that Diana "was the most complex character I have ever tried to depict - more complex than Hitler. The one thing they both had in common was they were born actors". Earlier this week, at the Zurich Film Festival, Hirschbiegel described the film as "very un-British" and described the critical reaction as harking back "to what newspapers like the Daily Mail would write about her back then - really vile things. So I guess I succeeded." The film has been sold to distri
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