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Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Vicky Krieps), the historical heroine of Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage, does not have it easy. When the movie opens, in 1877, she is on the verge of turning 40 years old and has feelings about it. “At the age of 40, a person begins to disperse and fade,” she says. Only, according to a too-attentive public being egged on by nosy tabloids, Elisabeth is doing the opposite of fading. Her relationship to food is, like her body, subject to public speculation. She wears a corset tightened to within an...

Corsage Review — Corsage (2022) Film Review, a movie written and directed by Marie Kreutzer and starring Vicky Krieps, Colin Morgan, Ivana Urban, Alma Hasun, Tamas Lengyel, Finnegan Oldfield, Jeanne Werner, Katharina Lorenz, Aaron Friesz, Raphael von Bargen, Manuel Rubey, Florian Teichtmeister, Regina Fritsch, Alexander Pschill, Raphael Nicholas, Oliver Rosskopf and Norman Hacker. Vicky Krieps [...]

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Empress Elisabeth of Austria, a starlet of 19th-century Europe, refused to have her photograph taken after she reached her mid-thirties. It’s a detail that hasn’t been copied over to Corsage, Marie Kreutzer’s tastefully anachronistic film about the Hapsburg royal. But that absence of photos as Elisabeth aged remains central to Kreutzer’s vision. Elizabeth believed beauty was her only currency, and she would do anything to preserve it. That includes, most infamously, a tightly corseted waist that measured a mere 19.5 inches.

We’ve seen many onscreen Elisabeths before. Romy Schneider, in the Fifties, starred in a television trilogy that reimagined her life as a bouncy, sweet-souled fairytale. It soon became a Christmas staple in Germany and Austria. Netflix only recently debuted its more feminist-minded take, The Empress, starring Devrim Lingnau. Many depictions offer ample time to the controversy that rocked Elisabeth’s later years when her son,...

Disney’s “Avatar: The Way Of Water” created a tidal wave at the U.K. and Ireland box office in its opening weekend washing away almost everything in its path.

James Cameron’s much-anticipated return to Pandora debuted at No. 1 with a gargantuan £11.1 million (13.5 million), per numbers released by Comscore. The film’s opening is 68 higher than the three-day total for “Avatar” in 2009, which went on to a lifetime gross of £96.7 million in the territory.

Sony/TriStar Pictures’ “Matilda the Musical,” after enjoying three weekends atop the box office, descended to second place in its fourth weekend with £1.3 million, for a total of £12.7 million.

In its sixth weekend, Disney’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” collected £377,824 for a total of £35.5 million in third position. In fourth place, Universal’s “Violent Night” took £352,281 in its third weekend and now has a total of £2.6 million.

Rounding off the top five was Disney’s...

“Our most important point was to show this woman for who she was and give a woman a voice, representing thousands of women who need a voice,” declares Vicky Krieps about the underlying themes about a woman’s agency and self-determination in the acclaimed period drama “Corsage.” For our recent webchat she adds about the film’s modern take on a centuries-old story, “we use it as a fairy-tale to talk about something, to show something that so many women feel,” she says. “I misbehaved as an actor, she’s misbehaving as a director and I think both of us being women, we were tired of behaving, tired of explaining our misbehaving. We just wanted to misbehave ‘because,’ create a character that is difficult ‘because,’ it is complex ‘because,’ because we all are these people. We, not one of us, is just one thing. We are all multiple things and...

“Most artistic decisions are very intuitive and I couldn’t really explain it at that time. It’s just that I didn’t want it to be a classic period film,” reveals Austrian filmmaker Marie Kreutzer about her latest labor of love, the period drama “Corsage,” which boldly weaves the late 1800s with contemporary touches. For our recent webchat she adds, “I’m always kind of bold in my artistic decisions, because I never really think about if people will like it or not, because you cannot plan that. I’ve learned that you can only do the film you would like to see. That’s all you can do. Then you just have to say true to that vision you have.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.

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“Corsage” is written and directed by Kreutzer, starring acclaimed Luxembourgish actress Vicky Krieps (“Phantom Thread...

Vicky Krieps, the actress from Luxembourg who introduced herself to a new audience by playing a headstrong woman in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread,” has come to TIFF 2022 with “Corsage,” a drama about a woman Krieps has felt a connection to since she was 15: Austrian Empress Elisabeth.

Krieps and director Maria Kreutzer stopped by TheWrap and Shutterstock’s Interview and Portrait Studio at the Toronto Film Festival to talk about “Corsage,” which follows the Empress (Krieps) on her 40th birthday, an age that, according to 19th century Bavarian society, made her an old woman. Feeling increasingly isolated by both royal circles and her own husband, Emperor Franz Joseph (Florian Teichtmeister), Elisabeth finds herself imprisoned by her own elite status and starts looking for any way to rebel against it, no matter how small.

Krieps said that growing up, she felt free to do whatever she wished and admired...

Vicky Krieps stars as the disgruntled Empress Elisabeth in the Cannes Un Certain Regard title.

Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage has been selected to represent Austria at the Academy Awards in the best international feature category.

The historical drama premiered in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard earlier this year where it picked up a best actor award for Vicky Krieps (jointly awarded with Harka’s Adam Bessa).

‘Corsage’: Cannes Review

Krieps plays the disgruntled Empress Elisabeth from the 19th-century who, upon turning 40, begins to rebel against her public image.

The cast also includes Colin Morgan, Florian Teichmeister and Katharina Lorenz.

Corsage...

It took the Empress Elisabeth’s strongest lady’s maid an hour every morning to lace her stays. The Emperor Franz-Joseph’s wife Sisi, as she was fondly known to the subjects of the Austro-Hungarian empire, was famous for the narrowness of her waist, which reputedly measured 19 and a half inches; the slightest weight gain was a matter of seething public interest. It looks very much as if Vicky Krieps, who brings great complexity to her portrait of the empress in Marie Kreutzer’s Un Certain Regard title Corsage, shares the imperial measurements. Let’s hope that is just a trick of the camera. So much corsetry — or corsage, the word we hear much used in the royal dressing-rooms of 19th-century Vienna — doesn’t leave much room for little things like ribs.

Sisi was a Bavarian princess, given a liberal upbringing by her royal but bohemian parents, who married the...

Marie Kreutzer’s “Corsage,” which premieres in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival, has debuted its first clip exclusively with Variety (below). MK2 Films is handling international sales. Ad Vitam will distribute the film in France.

“Corsage” stars Vicky Krieps, who broke out in the Oscar nominated “Phantom Thread.” Last year, she starred in Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Bergman Island,” which was in competition in Cannes, and was nominated for a César for Mathieu Amalric’s “Hold Me Tight.” She will soon be seen in Pathe’s big budget two-part movie “The Three Musketeers.”

“Corsage” centers on Empress Elisabeth of Austria. The monarch is idolized for her beauty and renowned for inspiring fashion trends, but in 1877, “Sissi” – as she is known – celebrates her 40th birthday and must fight to maintain her public image by lacing her corset tighter and tighter. While Elisabeth’s role has been reduced...

Vicky Krieps to star as the legendary 19th century empress whose life was far from a fairytale.

Paris-based sales company mk2 films has acquired world sales rights to Austrian director Marie Kreutzer’s costume drama Corsage and released a first image of actress Vicky Krieps as the 19th century Empress Elisabeth of Austria.

The company is launching sales on the film at the EFM next week (March 1-5), just as it starts filming in Austria. It is due to shoot from March to July, first in Vienna and Lower Austria and then in Luxembourg from June.

Affectionately known as Sisi,...

Vicky Krieps to star as the legendary 19th century empress whose life was far from a fairytale.

Paris-based sales company mk2 films has acquired world sales rights to Austrian director Marie Kreutzer’s costume drama Corsage and released a first image of actress Vicky Krieps as the 19th century Empress Elisabeth of Austria.

The company is launching sales on the film at the EFM next week (March 1-5), just as it starts filming in Austria. It is due to shoot from March to July, first in Vienna and Lower Austria and then in Luxembourg from June.

Affectionately known as Sisi,...

Vicky Krieps to star as the legendary 19th century empress whose life was far from a fairytale.

Paris-based sales company mk2 films has acquired world sales rights to Austrian director Marie Kreutzer’s costume drama Corsage and released a first image of actress Vicky Krieps as the 19th century Empress Elisabeth of Austria.

The company is launching sales on the film at the EFM next week (March 1-5), just as it starts filming in Austria. It is due to shoot from March to July, first in Vienna and Lower Austria and then in Luxembourg from June.

Affectionately known as Sisi,...

U.S. distributor Film Movement is growing its TV footprint with the acquisitions of four TV movies from Beta Film and documentary series Hidden History (which will be renamed Nazi Junkies) from Paris-based outfit #Edith Paris.

“Although we’ve long built our catalog with award-winning feature films from around the world, we’re excited to be turning our attentions to acquisitions of broadcast content,” explained Film Movement President Michael Rosenberg. “Now more than ever, there are countless hours of intriguing programming perfect for North American audiences, and we’re looking forward to expanding Film Movement’s library with compelling television-based content.”

The four Sara Stein TV movies (4×90), which Film Movement will distribute across North America, follow the cases of Berlin criminal investigator Sara Stein (Katharina Lorenz), who cultivates a low-key style, abhors violence and spends much of her work between Tel Aviv and the German capital. The four movies comprise Sara Stein: Shalom Berlin,...

Eager to see ‘Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to be Free’ which just opened in NYC (at the Village East) on April 20th and is opening in La on April 27th (at Laemmle Royal), I wanted to learn how this forgotten woman of the late 19th century and early 20th century thought and interacted as an equal to with the likes of Friedrich Nietzsche, the poet Rainer Marie Rilke and Sigmund Freud.

Directed by a woman, Cordula Kablitz-Post, the historical feature reveals the nonconforming life choices of Lou Andreas-Salomé, an intellectual and the first female psychoanalyst. Born 1861, Lou Andreas Salomé was a radical for her time who shunned tradition in pursuit of intellectual perfection, inflaming the hearts and inspiring the minds of the early 19th Century’s greatest thinkers. Even after her death, Lou has remained a controversial figure who was considered a groundbreaking philosopher and author by her famous male peers Nietzsche and Freud,...

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A boldly unconventional woman gets a crushingly conventional biopic with “Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to Be Free.” Such a heavy-handed title fits the film perfectly, far more than the original English-language handle, “In Love With Lou,” which confusingly made the movie sound like a sitcom. In her feature debut, director and co-writer Cordula Kablitz-Post clearly decided that Andreas-Salomé, famed author, philosopher and psychoanalyst, needed to be treated not just with kid gloves, but with pristine laminated mitts, robbing her subject of humor, let alone the charm that bewitched the likes of Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke and Sigmund Freud. This one’s strictly for audiences who love historical name-dropping; German box office following its June 2016 opening was negligible.

Kablitz-Post set herself the admirable task of rescuing Andreas-Salomé from being relegated to the role of muse, recognizing that her name is more often featured as an adjunct to famous men rather...

Lou Andreas-SALOMÉ: The Audacity to be Free Cinema Libre Studio Reviewed by: Harvey Karten Director: Cordula Kablitz-Post Screenwriter: Cordula Kablitz-Post, Susanne Hertel Cast: Katharina Lorenz, Nicole Heesters, Liv Lisa Fries, Merab Ninidze, Katharina Schüttler, Alexander Scheer Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 4/11/18 Opens: April 20, 2018 in New York’s Village East Cinema and April 27, […]

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