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Corsage (2022) dir. Marie Kreutzer

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Corsage, Marie Kreutzer (2022)

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CORSAGE:

Empress turns 40

Thumbs her nose at social norms

Still a bird in cage

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#onemannsmovies review of "Corsage" (2022). #CORSAGE. A fictionalised biopic on Empress Elisabeth that should have stuck to fact. 3/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Corsage” (2022). The history of central Europe in the 19th century is utterly tortuous and I’ve never got to grips with it. In “Corsage” we get pitched into a fictionalised account of a year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, wife of Emporor Franz Josef 1 and ruler of the Austro-Hungarian empire. The film is primarily in German, with English…

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Corsage

Summary: in an alternative version of reality the Empress Elisabeth of the Austro-Hungarian Empire faces a pivotal year in her life, her love hate relationship with Emperor Franz Joseph framing all her tribulations and her desire to be her own person underlying her endeavours.

Plot with plenty of spoilers:

Vicky Kreeps has created the role of a lifetime (she is executive producer of the film) by becoming Empress Elisabeth of Austria, the Empress is a witty, resourceful, sporty (she fences, she swims, she rides a horse, she loves fresh air) and dare I say beautiful (the Empress wants validation about her beauty at some point, that's how much she is cancelled by the people around her) woman, she leads an oppressive existence in which she is expected to bear children, to keep a very lite figure (by means of strict diets, daily weighing and the wearing of a very tight corset at which the name of the film hints) and in general to be the pretty face of the Empire.

The Empress has two children that she loves to bits: Valerie, a young girl being indoctrinated in the ways of the court and Rudolf, the crown prince, which is portrayed by an actor way too old to be her son, in real life the actor playing him, Aaron Friesz, is just 4 years her junior, but this being a fantasy actually works quite well, Rudolf is presented as some kind of man child which looks always shorter than her but acts with an implied unearned authority about what she does. Given that Elisabeth is turning 40 the film hints that the decision to stop bearing children is hers but this perhaps is also a flourish, in any case that part of her life that has provided an important purpose is now over.

The year is 1878, the Emperor Franz Joseph is embattled by a conflict in the Balkans and Elizabeth is having an identity crisis, she avoids long boring ceremonies by all means possible, often to spend time smoking and joking with his libertine cousin King Ludwig of Bavaria, sharing life with her 3 dames of honour and female servants, of which often she can't remember their names, and caring for people in mental and military hospitals, paying special attention to women practically incarcerated in them.

So during this year she travels around Europe to Northamptonshire of all places, where she has a quasi affair, presented in quite an explicit manner, with her riding teacher, a visit marred by the shame of her children about her and cut short by an accident, then on return to Vienna she seduces Franz Joseph just to humiliate him before his lat moment of joy, later on she sees him with a young woman that she presumes is his mistress.

The Prince leaves for Prague for military education, Franz Joseph wants Valerie to stay in Vienna while Elisabeth is sent elsewhere, this enrages Elisabeth who injures herself in a hint of things to come.

She now leaves for Bavaria to visit Ludwig, as much as she tries to entangle her cousin it transpires that he's gay so there is no hope for her with him.

In returning to Vienna, feeling emotionally drained, her doctor recommends this miracle drug that will ease her pain and have a calming effect: heroin.

From then on she grows increasingly free but also unpredictable: she cuts her long her with her own hands, she makes love to Franz Joseph forgetting about earlier concerns to get pregnant and ditches all attempts to keep her weight under control by forcing one of her dames of honour to lose weight and wear a face cover so she can stand up for her in public while she lives on sweets and cakes, she also instructs the young woman she has seen with Franz Joseph about how to be a good mistress without a hint of resentment.

This is Empress Sissi, most people know what happened to her at the end of her life, let's say the outcome is no different from real life but in this film she's the one choosing the when and how.

Vicky Kreeps has created a fictional character that perhaps is like her, or at least like the version of Elisabeth she would have liked her to be, we go through the silliness of some of the moments of the film and we just go along because this Elisabeth is fun to be around with, even when unceremoniously and fed up by it all, she chooses to show us the fuck you finger with understandable indignation at her situation.

Rating: 4/5

77 of 168

Date: 5 January 2023

Venue: BFI Southbank

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Jupiter Ascending (Film; 2015)

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The Kid (Silent Film; 1921)

Light of Day (Film; 1987)

Little Black Sambo (Ub Iwerks Cartoon; 1935)

Magician Mickey (Disney Cartoon; 1937)

Miracle (Sports Film; 2004)

Mozart in the Jungle (TV Series; 2014)

The Mission (Film; 1987)

Of Mice and Men (Novella; 1937)

The Ol’ Swimmin’ Hole (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1928)

Pink 8 Ball (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1972)

Porky’s Road Race (WB LT Cartoon; 1937)

Push (Film; 2009)

The Replacement Killers (Film; 1998)

Rhenish, a.k.a. Symphony No. 3 in Eb Major, by Robert Schumann (Symphony; 1851)

Saludos Amigos (Animated Disney Film; 1943)

Spike, by Elvis Costello (Album; 1989)

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (Animated Film; 2015)

Temple Grandin (Film; 2010)

Terror on the Seas or We’ve Only Begun to Fright (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 149; 1962)

The Uncultured Vulture (Phantasies Cartoon; 1947)

Weathering the Storm, Parts 1 & 2 (Underdog Cartoon, S1, Eps. 37 & 38 1965)

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Gamelia (Celebration of Marriage of Zeus & Hera; Ancient Greece)

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Hildegund, O.Praem (Christian; Saint)

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Karl von Kügelgen (Artology)

Mateo Correa Magallanes (one of Saints of the Cristero War)

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Melchu (Christian; Saint)

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Peter Baptist (Christian; Saint)

Relindis (Renule) of Mosaic (Christian; Saint)

Rubic-Cube Muddling Championships (Shamanism)

Self Stimulation Day (a.k.a. Self-Love Day; Pastafarian)

SKF Robot Smokestack (Muppetism)

Stray Animal Day (Celtic Book of Days)

Titus (Christian; Saint)

Tlaloc Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint) 

Vedastus (a.k.a. Vedast or Vaast; Christian; Saint)

Winter Snow Festival (Northern Japan; Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Zacchaeus Sunday (Orthodox Christian)

Zeuxis (Positivist; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [8 of 32]

Prime Number Day: 37 [12 of 72]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

American Dad (Animated TV Series; 2005)

Antigone, by Jean Anouilh (Play; 1943)

Barenaked Ladies Are Men, by Barenaked Ladies (Album; 2007)

The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler (Novel; 1929)

The Big Wash (Disney Cartoon; 1928)

Billy Liar, by Keith Waterhouse (Novel; 1959)

Black Widow (Film; 1987)

Blank Night or The Age of Nothing (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 150; 1962)

Blues Brothers 2000 (Film; 1998)

Bosch (TV Series; 2014)

The Brasher Doubloon (Film; 1947)

The Bull Fight (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1935)

Coraline (Animated Film; 2009)

Crazy Town (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1954)

Deep Night, by Rudy Valley (Song; 1929)

Funny Funny Business (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1942)

Get Rich or Die Tryin’, by 50 Cent (Album; 2003)

The Happy Tots’ Expedition (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1940)

Infinity On High, by Fall Out Boy (Album; 2007)

Jupiter Ascending (Film; 2015)

Keith Waterhouse (Writerism)

The Kid (Silent Film; 1921)

Light of Day (Film; 1987)

Little Black Sambo (Ub Iwerks Cartoon; 1935)

Magician Mickey (Disney Cartoon; 1937)

Miracle (Sports Film; 2004)

Mozart in the Jungle (TV Series; 2014)

The Mission (Film; 1987)

Of Mice and Men (Novella; 1937)

The Ol’ Swimmin’ Hole (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1928)

Pink 8 Ball (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1972)

Porky’s Road Race (WB LT Cartoon; 1937)

Push (Film; 2009)

The Replacement Killers (Film; 1998)

Rhenish, a.k.a. Symphony No. 3 in Eb Major, by Robert Schumann (Symphony; 1851)

Saludos Amigos (Animated Disney Film; 1943)

Spike, by Elvis Costello (Album; 1989)

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (Animated Film; 2015)

Temple Grandin (Film; 2010)

Terror on the Seas or We’ve Only Begun to Fright (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 149; 1962)

The Uncultured Vulture (Phantasies Cartoon; 1947)

Weathering the Storm, Parts 1 & 2 (Underdog Cartoon, S1, Eps. 37 & 38 1965)

Today’s Name Days

Doris, Dorothea, Paul (Austria)

Svetla, Svetlana, Svetlomir (Bulgaria)

Dorica, Doroteja, Pavao (Croatia)

Vanda (Czech Republic)

Dorothea (Denmark)

Doora, Doris, Dorotea, Tea, Thea (Estonia)

Tea, Teija, Terhi, Terhikki, Tiia (Finland)

Dorothée, Gaston (France)

Doris, Dorothea, Paul (Germany)

Fotis, Photis (Greece)

Dóra, Dorottya (Hungary)

Amando, Dorotea, Paolo (Italy)

Dace, Dārta, Dora, Dore (Latvia)

Alkis, Darata, Titas, Živilė (Lithuania)

Dorte, Dortea (Norway)

Angel, Angelus, Antoni, Bogdana, Bohdan, Bohdana, Dorota, Ksenia, Szymon, Tytus (Poland)

Fotie, Ioan, Varsanufie, Vucol (Romania)

Ksenia (Russia)

Dorota (Slovakia)

Dorotea, Pablo (Spain)

Doris, Dorotea (Sweden)

Teofil, Teofila (Ukraine)

Amanda, Dolly, Dora, Doreen, Dorothea, Dorothy, Dorthy, Dottie, Manda, Mandi, Mandy, Ron, Rona, Ronald, Ronalda, Ronaldo, Ronnie, Titus (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 37 of 2024; 329 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 6 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 17 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Yi-Chou), Day 27 (Geng-Zi)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 27 Shevat 5784

Islamic: 26 Rajab 1445

J Cal: 7 Grey; Sevenday [7 of 30]

Julian: 24 January 2024

Moon: 14%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 9 Homer (2nd Month) [Zeuxis)

Runic Half Month: Elhaz (Elk) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 48 of 89)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 16 of 28)

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Corsage (2022) Marie Kreutzer

December 25th 2022

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Corsage (2022) | ORF, ZDF & arte

Corsage is a movie by Austrian director and writer Marie Kreutzer. The movie is produced in corporation with ORF, ZDF and arte.

The FilmFernsehFonds Bayern describes the film in the following manner:

Christmas 1877. Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, turns 40. This is the average life expectancy of a woman in the late 19th century. Elisabeth is now officially an old woman. As an Empress, she has exclusively representative duties. She lives a life restricted by court ritual, her duties and the expectations others have of her. But she has the greatest control over her own image that encounters everywhere. Paintings and statues show an elegant, beautiful and graceful woman with the rosy complexion of the Bavarian girl she once was. What she wears becomes fashion. Her unnatural small waist becomes the moderm beauty ideal in a time in which curvy women are actually viewed as a status symbol. Elisabeth is an admired as well as critized role model in the late 19th century. But Elisabeth knows her time is running out. At the age of 40, she can no longer be a symbol of beauty. But what will remain when no one admires her anymore but just respects her? What is her raison d'être?

Vicky Krieps has been cast as Empress Elisabeth. She will be joined by Florian Teichtmeister and Aaron Friesz who will play her husband Franz Joseph and her son Crown Prince Rudolf respectively. Katharina Lorenz and Jeanne Werner have joined the cast as Elisabeth’s Hungarian ladies-in-waiting Maria Festetics and Ida Ferenczy. Manuel Rubey will appear as Sisi’s cousin King Ludwig II of Bavaria.

Filming has begun in March and will last until July of 2021 with 36 days of filming. Vienna, Lower Austria and Luxembourg will serve as locations. mk2 films will handle international distribution. The film is set for a German theatrical release in 2022.

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“Corsage” biopic de Marie Kreutzer - sur l'Impératrice d'Autriche dite Sissi (1854–1898) - avec Vicky Krieps, Florian Teichtmeister, Alma Hasun, Katharina Lorenz, Jeanne Werner, Manuel Rubey, Morgan Colin, Finnegan Oldfield et Aaron Friesz, novembre 2022.

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Aaron Friesz

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    Chris fait partie d’une unité spéciale de la police, une vie quotidienne dans l’action au milieu de ses pairs. Lorsqu’il tire sur un homme lors d’une opération, soi-disant en état de légitime défense, ses collègues le célèbre, comme un héros, mais le monde extérieur est nettement plus critique…

    Origine du film : Autriche Réalisateur : Stefan Lukacs Scénaristes : Stefan Lukacs Acteurs : Laurence Rupp, Anton Noori, Maria Hofstätter, Roland Düringer, Anna Suk, Nico Chitta, Deniz Cooper, Aaron Friesz, Manfred Fuchs, Michael Fuith Musique : Wolfgang Frisch, Markus Kienzl Genre : Drame Durée : 92 minutes Date de sortie : 21 septembre 2018 (Autriche) Année de production : 2018 Sociétés de production : Golden Girls Filmproduktion Distribué par : Filmladen Titre original : Cops Notre note : ★★☆☆☆

    “Cops” est un film dramatique autrichien datant de 2018, écrit et réalisé par Stefan Lukacs qui signe là son premier long-métrage. Les acteurs principaux sont Laurence Rupp, qu’on a pu voir dans “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” (2015), Anton Noori, qu’on a pu voir dans “Der letzte Tanz” (2014), Maria Hofstätter, qu’on a pu voir dans “Paradis: Amour” (2012), Roland Düringer, qu’on a pu voir dans “Das ewige Leben” (2015), et Anna Suk, qu’on a pu voir dans “Wannabe” (2017).

L’histoire proposée par “Cops” nous invite à suivre Christoph Horn (Laurence Rupp), jeune recrue au sein des WEGA (Wiener Einsatzgruppe Alarmabteilung), une unité tactique de la police de Vienne en Autriche, très similaire au GIGN, Raid, SWAT, etc. Alors qu’il participe à sa première opération, il abat un suspect qui venait de poignarder son collègue. Cette action lui vaut les félicitations de son équipe et de sa hiérarchie, mais la légitimité de l’intervention est remis en question par d’autres fonctionnaires de police. Alors qu’en apparence, Christoph vit positivement son acte d’héroïsme, des syndromes post-traumatiques font leur apparition. La culpabilité se fait jour, et bientôt, il va être écarté de l’unité spéciale de la police, à son grand désespoir …

De mémoire, il me semble que c’est la première fois que nous visionnons un film autrichien. Dès les premières minutes du métrage, on peut se rendre compte, notamment à travers la photographie, signée Xiaosu Han et Andreas Thalhammer, de la différence de niveau avec les productions hollywoodiennes ou encore coréennes, puisque nous sommes, modestement, des adeptes du cinéma en provenance du Pays du Matin Calme. Il est évident que “Cops” est un film bénéficiant d’un faible budget. Quoi qu’il en soit, c’est le contenu qui est important, au-delà les seules valeurs de productions. La trame de fond proposée par le scénario signée par Stefan Lukas lui-même, qui endosse donc ici la double casquette de scénariste et de réalisateur, est intéressante. Malheureusement, de mon point de vue, l’aspect psychologique qui est développé est bâclé, et c’est essentiellement cette raison qui fait perdre de précieux points à ce film.

En outre, il y a un aspect très désagréable dans la présentation qui est faite de l’unité WEGA, à savoir un côté très machiste qu’on pourrait résumer à des abrutis qui se prennent pour des Rambo. Cela contraste fortement avec les reportages que l’on peut voir régulièrement. Des journalistes suivent un groupe de policiers de type unité spéciale, et on précise justement qu’on évite absolument d’enrôler des individus hors de contrôle, sans cerveau… De plus, on laisse entendre que le chantage pourrait être un moyen d’accéder à la fonction, alors que l’éviction était parfaitement justifiée. Bref, il y a des trous dans le scénario, ce qui rend l’histoire peu crédible. Il est un peu plus intéressant de s’arrêter sur l’aspect psychologique de la situation. Mais de ce côté-là aussi cela me semble mal exploité. Le principal protagoniste s’enfonce dans l’alcool, développe des idées suicidaires et se réfugie dans une forme de violence, ce qui fait très cliché et donc nettement trop simpliste à mon humble avis.

Dans l’ensemble, la distribution propose d’honorables prestations. On retiendra essentiellement les performances de Laurence Rupp et d’Anton Noori. Le premier incarne donc un jeune policier, et le second interprète son chef de groupe. Ce dernier est probablement le personnage le plus intéressant. Un policier d’élite qui se retrouve doucement en fin de carrière pour son travail spécifique, ayant des problèmes physiques qu’il soulage par voie médicamenteuse. Un homme qui peine à s’arrêter, motivé par l’adrénaline. L’aura dont il dispose auprès de ses hommes incite ces derniers à commettre des actes répréhensibles. À contrario, Maria Hofstätter offre un personnage sans saveur, moraliste sans vraiment l’être, et complètement perdu dans l’action.

En conclusion, “Cops” est un film médiocre, disposant d’une histoire intéressante, mais terriblement mal exploitée dont l’intrigue reste vague pour ne pas dire imprécise. Le récit est fluide, la narration est linéaire et le rythme est correct. La photographie manque de pep, la bande originale est relativement désagréable, car les choix musicaux sont en décalage avec l’action de par leur côté trop excentrique. La distribution offre de correctes prestations. La durée de 90 minutes est finalement salutaire afin d’éviter de faire sombrer le métrage dans la défection totale. Un film dont on peut se dispenser…

    COPS (2018) ★★☆☆☆ Chris fait partie d'une unité spéciale de la police, une vie quotidienne dans l'action au milieu de ses pairs.