Corsage

Film - 2022

7,0

166.7K

Corsage it's a movie with Vicky Krieps, Florian Teichtmeister, Katharina Lorenz, Jeanne Werner, Alma Hasun Full cast. Directed by Marie Kreutzer. Original title Corsage, runtime 113 minutes. Genres Drama, History.

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Diego Cineriflessi

The deconstruction and modernization of a myth like that of Sissi is a courageous and partly necessary operation. In fact, it is now well known that the image built around the last empress of Austria by the productions of the 1950s was highly watered down and anti-historical. Kreutzer tries to tell the story of the Sissy known to the Austrians of the time, the one obsessed with the image, afraid of the passage of time, not very compliant with the rules of the Court. To do this she tries to use a modern language by inserting objects that are not contemporary with the characters into the shots to symbolize the character's modernity. Didactic? Probably yes, it's not even too effective, but that's it. Supporting the film is an excellent performance by Vicky Krieps who already made herself loved in The Hidden Thread. Here she outlines the character poised between certainties and weaknesses, masterfully using her facial expressions which can do more than the words of the screenplay. Remarkable. Yet The Empress's Corset is one of those films in which the direction is good, the performances are excellent, the technical cast, starting with the photography, is interesting, but which ultimately fails to convince. Maybe it's due to the lack of a real idea for the screenplay, but you leave the cinema not fully satisfied. The modernization of a historical character is a device already seen, even in recent cinema. This is why Kreutzer's film struggles to amaze, struggles to strike the viewer and attract him. Sin. Read all

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Ignazio Venzano

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. Read all

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A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman; she starts trying to maintain her public image.