2022 · drama · biography
Corsage (2022)
Directed by Marie Kreutzer1h 54m2022
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.
Our read: Corsage (2022) (2022) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive drama · biography entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / biography, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- signature
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