Diana

Name: Diana
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Released: November 1, 2013
Duration: 113 min
Rating: 35
Cast: Naomi Watts, Naveen Andrews

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Entertainment One | Release Date: November 1, 2013 | PG-13

Starring: Naomi Watts, Naveen Andrews

Summary: During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana (Naomi Watts) embarks on a final rite of passage: a secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan (Naveen Andrews).

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Romance

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 113 min

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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Roger Moore

Oct 29, 2013

Watts masters Diana’s look — the way she carried her head and used those wide, coyly expressive eyes — but is only passable at impersonating the voice. Read full review

Joshua Rothkopf

Oct 29, 2013

Watts’s work is extraordinary, sometimes keying off the same illicit register as "Mulholland Drive"; she risks being goofy, awkward and bratty. Read full review

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Oct 31, 2013

There’s a germ of a smart biopic in Diana; the problem is that it’s tucked away behind a clunky structure and even clunkier dialogue. Read full review

Charles Gant

Sep 9, 2013

While mostly swerving past the pitfall of tastelessness, this sincerely intended account of the last two years of Princess Diana’s life risks an even more perilous roadblock: dullness. Read full review

Ty Burr

Oct 31, 2013

Hirschbiegel and Watts don’t have the nerve for camp. Even a scene of a rejected Diana back at Kensington, forlornly playing Bach at her piano while mascara streams down her face, is played gloomily straight. Read full review

Stephanie Merry

Oct 31, 2013

Diana isn’t just an egregious case of rewriting history, but one of oversimplifying it. Read full review

Eric Henderson

Nov 8, 2013

Are the micro-biopics that don't even bother to provide overviews of their famed subjects' entire lives, but instead lean on the spectacle of celebrity impersonation, the new camp? Read full review

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meydianarizki21

Nov 2, 2020

I hardly write reviews but the average rating of this movie forced and compelled me to sign in and write one for this one. I have been waiting for this one since its production days and now that I finally managed to watch it, I am really surprised to see it has been rated so low on average.I hardly write reviews but the average rating of this movie forced and compelled me to sign in and write one for this one. I have been waiting for this one since its production days and now that I finally managed to watch it, I am really surprised to see it has been rated so low on average. The film is great and I loved it. Naomi has done a wonderful job especially with her expressions and her accent. She did justice to the character. Nobody other could have done Diana's character in such a magnificent, delicate and magnificent way. It was because of this movie that I was so touched that I watched Diana's interview with BBC once again after so many years. I compared Naomi's impressions of Diana during that very interview and she was just amazing. It's a beautiful film and the cast has done an amazing job. It doesn't happen very often that the admirers and fans of a famous personality can be pleased by someone else by being the same. Naomi did that successfully.… Expand

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sachkitaalash

Feb 4, 2014

First thing is that this is a Film saying something about feelings of a woman, longing for Love and not merely a TV Documentry or a Biopic with real life clippings..so its best not to expect that !!This Famous saying by poet Rumi...”Somewhere between right
and wrong there is a garden…I willFirst thing is that this is a Film saying something about feelings of a woman, longing for Love and not merely a TV Documentry or a Biopic with real life clippings..so its best not to expect that !!This Famous saying by poet Rumi...”Somewhere between right
and wrong there is a garden…I will meet you there”. That’s the garden of love,
where Diana wanted to go to. The film says a lot about the private life of
Diana, which I guess has been researched on some hard facts. Young Lioness..One
of the most beautiful women of all times…had the whole world in her palm yet
she yearned for The one thing, that is a
gift of only the fortunate- LOVE…She was denied that from her rebound affair
with (one in a million) heart Surgeon- Dr.Khan, who realistically and logically,
choose his career and family over her…only
because she was a princess. But sadly Dr.Khan did not know that love is not to be
analysed from the head …But FELT from the heart, which was what Diana felt…always
from her Heart !! What I gather from the
Film is that…Despite what was expected from the world’s most important woman at
that time, from the Society, Royalty, Paparazzi
and the World at large… she tried her best to Just come out of those clutches
of Royalty to which she had wed into… Yet it seems like No one wanted to see
her in any different image other than Princess Diana…Queen of England ! I feel there is that one dialogue from the
movie- Notting hill by Julia Roberts, which best fits at the END…where Diana
probably might want to have said to the world that…After all... I'm just a
girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her!! …R.I.P. Diana.… Expand

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inaneswine

Nov 14, 2017

I honestly don't understand the overwhelming criticism that this film is receiving. The film is by no means perfect. The first half of the film is, frankly, boring. As we focus on the love affair between Diana and Hasnat, we miss the bigger picture, and you could easily mistake the coupleI honestly don't understand the overwhelming criticism that this film is receiving. The film is by no means perfect. The first half of the film is, frankly, boring. As we focus on the love affair between Diana and Hasnat, we miss the bigger picture, and you could easily mistake the couple for a pair from a so-so Nicholas Sparks novel. However, the second half of the film has a lot more going for it, as the fame of the princess begins to destroy her relationships, her family and, ultimately, herself.

With a steady - if not watertight - performance from Watts, perhaps the reason for the intense negative press towards this biopic shouldn't come as much of a surprise. After all, they are the antagonists here.… Expand

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FilipeNeto

Aug 22, 2018

When I heard about this movie I thought it was going to be a more or less biographical film, like the ones that were already made for other personalities (and it seems that, after "The Queen" and "Iron Lady", the trend is to take British personalities of most recent decades). But this movieWhen I heard about this movie I thought it was going to be a more or less biographical film, like the ones that were already made for other personalities (and it seems that, after "The Queen" and "Iron Lady", the trend is to take British personalities of most recent decades). But this movie was far from it. In fact, I don't know to what extent this film is biographical because its not able to decently tell the life of Diana Spencer, who went down in history as Princess of Wales by marrying the heir to the British crown. If we don't have well present in memory all her life we will leave the room without completely understanding the film, because it explains very little and focuses more on the time after the separation of the royal couple. And let's face it, many of us no longer remember her life. More than ten years have passed since her death and almost no one has an elephant's memory.

Then we have Naomi Watts in the lead role. She is a good actress and was certainly a solid bet of the director, Oliver Hirschbiegel. The physical resemblance between her and the late princess is evident and was well used, but it lacks to this Diana the good script and solid dialogues that would give to the film a quality that, in this way, does not have. Anyway, since Diana is such a beloved personality even today, it took some courage to make the film, and so I can consider it was a merit effort, even if it failed at what was essential.… Expand

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MovieGoer14

Nov 7, 2013

Diana is a terrible film I agree, but Naomi Watts is outstanding in this film, even though it is terribly edited, dull, long and uninteresting, I totally forgot that I am watching someone taking the roll of Princess Diana, it all seemed to me that it is a real secret footage from her life,Diana is a terrible film I agree, but Naomi Watts is outstanding in this film, even though it is terribly edited, dull, long and uninteresting, I totally forgot that I am watching someone taking the roll of Princess Diana, it all seemed to me that it is a real secret footage from her life, and the editing helped to forget it is a film, because you can't figure out it is a new day or is it the same, although it gets better, but believe it is footage from her life before she died, sometimes it seemed interesting but most of the time it is silly and forgettable. I won't bother to watch Diana again, it is terrible, boring, film but seems so real. Totally a film to skip.… Expand

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DCEdmonds

Nov 13, 2014

"Diana" 10 Scale Rating: 2.0 (Awful) ...

The Good: Naomi Watts, who is usually excellent, tried really hard to make this work. The Bad: Sadly, Watts looked nothing like Diana and these days that is unacceptable in film. On top of that, the film is just a mess. It is very tacky, at"Diana" 10 Scale Rating: 2.0 (Awful) ...

The Good: Naomi Watts, who is usually excellent, tried really hard to make this work.

The Bad: Sadly, Watts looked nothing like Diana and these days that is unacceptable in film. On top of that, the film is just a mess. It is very tacky, at times slow, and comes across as a film made for cable television. While I never understood the obsession with Diana, surely she deserved better than this?… Expand

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Nov 2, 2013

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