In this film I saw a new and overall fun idea from Sissi. Finally, I would say, no longer the beautiful and self-confident young woman of which there are various versions, but a person alive in her existential neuroses. Is life at court unfulfilling? We know that it is not always (almost never, perhaps) that it is not power and/or wealth that gives happiness or simply the serenity of existing. On the other hand, it is historically true that Elizabeth of Bavaria had anything but an easy and peaceful life. She didn't get along with many at court, and she saw little of her husband. It is not for nothing that she devoted herself to travel, where she looked for what she could not find in Vienna. Much in the film is historically based, other things and in particular the ending of the story are invented. But, even if it is true that without knowing Sissi's true story we don't always understand what happens, and in this sense it is as if a clear and logical guiding thread were missing, precisely this not entirely linear pace of the story corresponds to a character always searching for himself, whatever the cost. The resulting entertainment is not that of a "comedy", it is the result more than anything of the curiosity that derives from the way in which the story is represented here.