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Corsage

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Corsage

2022

Marie Kreutzer

Vicky Krieps, Colin Morgan, Florian Teichtmeister, Finnegan Oldfield ...

5.9

1,286

Drama Empress Elizabeth of Austria is idolized for her beauty and renowned for inspiring fashion trends. In 1877 Christmas Empress turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman she starts trying to maintain her public image.

	Author	Review
United States	Jessica Kiang Variety	"The handsome, mischievous 'Corsage' displays a different, if no less passionate affection for the woman struggling to breathe inside the corset —the kind of love that sets her free"	POS
United States	Stephanie Bunbury Deadline	"'Corsage' is a period film that, along with telling a story, inquires into the nature and meaning of period films. It is clever, somewhat didactic, as austere in its intentions as it is lush in execution"	POS
United Kingdom	Anna Smith Time Out	"Spiky, witty period drama (...) Kreutzer has her own style of revisionist feminist history, and aided by Krieps's bold and brilliant turn, it's riveting stuff (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Nicholas Barber The Wrap	"A deeply sympathetic portrait of Elisabeth, enhanced by Krieps’ delightful performance"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It is an austere and angular picture. Krieps gives an exhilaratingly fierce, uningratiating performance (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide Screendaily	"A title which should be of considerable interest to high end arthouse distributors (...) What is rewarding about this picture is the way that it interrogates her iconic status"	POS
United States	Rafaela Sales Ross The Playlist	"'Corsage' succeeds precisely by ditching the myth of objectivity in favor of portraying a woman eternalized by the glory and dolor of her imperfections"	POS
United States	Keith Watson Slant	"One of 'Corsage'’s more remarkable features is vibrant, twitchy aliveness. It’s a work about stultification that never once feels stuffy. That’s thanks in great part to Krieps’s performance (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Adam Solomons IndieWire	"Although 'Corsage' makes a worthy attempt to recast Elisabeth as independent of her constraints, its final note leaves it feeling a little too much like its own sort of requiem"	NEU
United States	Sarah Milner SlashFilm	"It is an experience. It's a thoroughly well-crafted film that exudes exquisite taste (...) A fascinating treatise on femininity and identity — with implications and lessons that apply to the 21st century, as well as the 19th"	POS
United Kingdom	Lou Thomas Empire	"A brilliant Vicky Krieps performance, ample surprises and a series of playful anachronisms elevate Marie Kreutzer’s period drama about a 19th century Empress above the ordinary (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Rory O'Connor The Film Stage	"Since her career-making turn in 'Phantom Thread' Krieps hadn’t quite found a fit like this, looking just a little lost in perfectly good and finely cast projects like 'Old' or 'Bergman Island'"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"[It] will leave you gasping for air (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Kevin Maher The Times	"Dramatic complexity is found in Elisabeth’s capacity to wrestle with her own myth while bucking against the demands of tradition (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter	"Kreutzer builds up an episodic but compelling portrait of a disaffected woman, but one with enough stoic wisdom to know that since she bought the ticket she might as well stay on the ride as long as she can"	POS
United States	Manuel Betancourt AV Club	"'Corsage' establishes itself as one of 2022's most ravishing cinematic experiences, a treatise on boredom that's as electric as it is energizing"	POS
United States	Nell Minow rogerebert.com	"The sumptuous settings, elegiac tone, and Krieps' layered performance bring us into the world of this woman caught between the expectations of her culture and her own desires (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
Canada	Graeme Guttmann Screen Rant	"It is an impeccably crafted period piece that feels in kinship with Sofia Coppola's 'Marie Antoinette'. Krieps is able to communicate a complex interiority in Elisabeth with such small glances (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Anthony Lane The New Yorker	What Kreutzer aims to impress upon us is the effect of smothering and constraint—not only upon her heroine but also upon the female sex, at every social stratum, under Habsburg rule	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"A bold, visually striking and ingeniously anachronistic portrait of an empress in complicated rebellion"	POS
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney The Guardian	"What consistently mesmerises, however, is the lead performance by Krieps (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"Intriguing but inert historical drama (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
	Kaleem Aftab Cineuropa	"Precise, daring and intriguing picture (...) It's hard to imagine that there'll be better films about a loveless marriage and a woman's struggle for independence this year"	POS

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