In an award-winning performance, Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread) plays Empress Elisabeth of Austria who, on the cusp of her 40th birthday,...
In an award-winning performance, Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread) plays Empress Elisabeth of Austria who, on the cusp of her 40th birthday, is thrown into turmoil as she anticipates being considered an old woman.
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A lavish production, Marie Kreutzer’s revisionist portrayal of the famously eccentric Empress Elisabeth thrums with Vicky Krieps’ magnetic performance, prompting rumination upon loss, responsibility, nihilism, aging, and the particularly gendered tension of ‘staying in one’s lane’. Beautiful.
86 %158 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
59 %170 reviewsAudience score rating
"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."
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IndieWire
IndieWire"Although a late entry to the disaffected royalty subcategory, is arguably one of the most interesting so far..."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"Krieps is terrific in a role which depicts Elisabeth as both a victim of her gilded cage circumstances and a chain-smoking self-absorbed uber-bitch."
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Screen Daily
Screen Daily"Krieps gives an exhilaratingly fierce, uningratiating performance."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"Full of odd glitches and deliberate flubs in period detail, the film feels like an invitation into a secret conspiracy to reach back through time and, with deft, irreverent 21st-century fingers, loosen the stays on Empress Elisabeth’s corsetry just a little."
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Variety
VarietyCorsage | Details
Award winner- Un Certain Regard - Best Performance (Krieps), Cannes 2022
- Rating
- 15, strong sex, nudity, suicide references
- Runtime
- 113
- Genre
- Drama, True Story & Biography
- Country of origin
- Austria, France, Germany
