Corsage

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Corsage

2022

1h 53m

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Empress Elizabeth of Austria is idolized for her beauty and renowned for inspiring fashion trends. But in 1877, 'Sissi' celebrates her 40th birthday and must fight to maintain her public image by lacing her corset tighter and tighter. While Elizabeth's role has been reduced against her wishes to purely performative, her hunger for knowledge and zest for life makes her more and more restless in Vienna. She travels to England and Bavaria, visiting former lovers and old friends, seeking the excitement and purpose of her youth. With a future of strictly ceremonial duties laid out in front of her, Elizabeth rebels against the hyperbolized image of herself and comes up with a plan to protect her legacy.

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Critics Consensus

Corsage puts a refreshingly irreverent spin on period biopic formulas, further elevated by Vicky Krieps' terrific turn in the central role.

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Christina Newland

iNews.co.uk

09/18/2024

5/5

Marie Kreutzer's study of the fascinating life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria puts most other 'feminist' period dramas to shame - and Vicky Krieps rules the screen.

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David Stratton

The Australian

02/10/2023

2.5/5

Though many may well appreciate the film’s deliberate distortions and its rewriting of history, I found Corsage fascinating and irritating in more or less equal amounts.

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Paul Byrnes

Sydney Morning Herald

02/08/2023

3/5

Vicky Krieps, in a spectacular performance, illuminates a rather trudging narrative. Sisi spends much of the film gasping for breath; the rest she spends pining, weeping, brooding and rebelling.

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Connor Lightbody

InSession Film

07/08/2024

4/5

A devilishly entertaining, tangibly textured, provocative film on a self-destructive woman hellbent on not conforming to societal strictures

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Sarah Vincent

Sarah G Vincent Views

06/02/2024

Kreutzer and Krieps’ version of feminism has women in power erasing actual or potential targeted victims and centering themselves as the real victims

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Avaryl Halley

Movie Bitches

04/24/2024

It pisses me off when they take historical figures and change things that are facts

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ntbobkat

01/13/2023

Unusual and interesting.

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NdeL

01/12/2023

I liked the movie very much. However, I don't think it was appropriate for an American audience. I was educated in Germany and am very familiar with the subject matter but here, a person off the street wouldn't have understood anything about the main character's personality and issues.

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Charles

01/08/2023

good movie! great acting !

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cory elzey

01/08/2023

Perfect movie. Vicky Krieps is gniale! Beautiful flow, the entire movie had a beautiful transparency about it that made it so pleasing. The score was flawless.

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Dylan

01/07/2023

Great acting, gorgeous locations, well-paced, and very unexpectedly compelling.

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Cassandra

01/07/2023

A wild ride. Enthralling.

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Synopsis

Empress Elizabeth of Austria is idolized for her beauty and renowned for inspiring fashion trends. But in 1877, 'Sissi' celebrates her 40th birthday and must fight to maintain her public image by lacing her corset tighter and tighter. While Elizabeth's role has been reduced against her wishes to purely performative, her hunger for knowledge and zest for life makes her more and more restless in Vienna. She travels to England and Bavaria, visiting former lovers and old friends, seeking the excitement and purpose of her youth. With a future of strictly ceremonial duties laid out in front of her, Elizabeth rebels against the hyperbolized image of herself and comes up with a plan to protect her legacy.

Director: Marie Kreutzer
Producer: Alexander Glehr, Johanna Scherz
Screenwriter: Marie Kreutzer
Distributor: IFC Films
Production Co: Alamode Film, MK2 Films, ZDF/Arte, Film AG Produktion, Samsa Film, Kazak Productions, Arte, arte France Cinéma, ORF Film/Fernseh-Abkommen, Komplizen Film
Genre: History, Drama, Biography
Original Language: German
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 23, 2022, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA): $705.7K
Runtime: 1h 53m
Sound Mix: Digital 5.1
Aspect Ratio: Digital 2.39:1