#corsage (2022)

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COLIN MORGAN as BAY MIDDLETON CORSAGE (2022) dir. Marie Kreutzer

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CORSAGE (2022) dir. Marie Kreutzer

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CORSAGE (2022) dir. Marie Kreutzer  

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Vicky Krieps for Violet ph. Elina Kechicheva

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showed up for 5 mins displayed the most babygirl behaviour ever and dipped. king

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Marie Kreutzer was still fleshing out the screenplay for “Corsage,” her spiky depiction of the 19th century Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Vicky Krieps), when the Austrian writer/director went to the supermarket. At the magazine stand, she noticed a string of covers, all featuring Meghan Markle. “The headlines were different,” Kreutzer said, speaking over Zoom from her home in Vienna. “It doesn’t matter what it’s about, it only has to be about her. There’s always someone judging her. Whatever she did, it was wrong.”

That same judgmental gaze is a burden faced by Kreutzer’s version of the Empress from the start, as she turns 40 and grows tired of the formal expectations placed upon her at every turn. “The core of the film, for me, is that women have always been and still are raised and trained to please, Kreutzer said. “That’s something we grow up with.”

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CORSAGE (2022) d. Marie Kreutzer

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ill always be a fan of the 'dam bitch u live like this' neurodiverse cousin to cousin dynamic

corsage tonight baybeyyyy

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Corsage (2022)

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Corsage Marie Kreutzer. 2022

Museum Palais impérial, Burgring 5, 1010 Vienna, Austria See in map

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German-French public broadcaster ARTE will air the free TV premiere of Corsage (2022) on November 22nd, 2024 at 8:15pm. It will be available to stream afterwards in Germany and France.

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It’s as though part of you has died…

Vicky Krieps as Empress Elisabeth of Austria in CORSAGE (2022) dir. Marie Kreutzer

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Have you watched Corsage? Because I saw it for the first time a week or go or so. And I'm so enraged about it. I'd spew about plot details but I don't know if you saw it yet and don't wanna spoil it (further). But if you did, what are your thoughts? Since you are anti Die Kaiserin (with blooody good reason) for the insane plot they make up you're gonna have a field day with Corsage too. Or I'm underestimating it but I found the second half of the fil, especially with the ladies in waiting and the final just as insane as Die Kaiserin. Why can't they write these people who have actually existed with a bit more grace. Sigh

Hello! Yes I watched it last year, but I didn't make any comment on it - tbh it felt mostly like a fever dream to me, and I was really lost for words when I finished it. Like I truly had no idea of what to make of it, other than Vicky Krieps is very talented (so if you haven't go watch Phantom Thread, an actually really good movie).

Spoilers for Corsage under the cut!

Now looking back at it, I do have a more defined opinion on the movie - although it remains mixed. Marie Kreutzer had no interest in making a biopic, and we knew that from the beginning, so I really can't fault her for the inaccuracies (although they did annoy me). The movie has so many anachronisms (a telephone is seen in one scene!) that you would never think it's meant to depict actual history. What Kreutzer did instead was using Elisabeth as a catalyst for the themes she wanted to convey.

And this is why ultimately I just couldn't get into the movie: I just failed to see what Kreutzer wanted me to take away from her film. The last half hour of the movie were incredibly frustrating to me, and honestly, I found very tasteless that Elisabeth's "liberation" came through suicide. It's even framed somewhat positively, which just doesn't sit right with me. Elisabeth struggled with depression her whole life and had suicidal thoughts, in some entries from her diary Valerie really feared her mother would take her own life. And I don't know if this is what Kreutzer intended or not, but to me it felt that Corsage's final message was "Elisabeth should've taken her own life to free herself". Which is a huge nop from me. We already have enough with Rudolf's suicide being heavily romanticized in media, I can't stand Elisabeth's hypothetical suicide being added to the list (incidentally, the other recent Elisabeth movie does something similar and it made me almost as upset). I think I would've been more forgiving of that last half hour had they just gone for "Elisabeth runs away" or something like that - but they lost me when she jumps into the sea.

Also I can't believe that this movie IS YET ANOTHER MEDIA ABOUT ELISABETH'S RELATIONSHIP WITH MEN MOSTLY. Like I was excited because Ida Ferenczy, Marie Festetics and Fanny Feifalik were all characters, and I thought their relationship would finally be shown on screen - but none of them have near as much of screentime or development as Franz Josef and Ludwig II. Even Bay Middleton stands out more than the ladies-in-waiting: the women all become a blur next to the well defined male characters. Probably Valerie is the only female character besides Elisabeth that's actually distinctive, but they changed their relationship and she barely seems to like her mother. Incredible.

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BEST FILMS OF 2022, pt. 1

Honorable Mentions: (alphabetically) All That Breathes, Crimes of the Future, Decision to Leave, Mr. Bachmann and his Class, The Northman, One Fine Morning, Resurrection, She Said, Till, Turning Red, Women Talking

30. AFTERSUN, dir. Charlotte Wells

29. THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER, dir. Joanna Hogg

28. RETURN TO SEOUL, dir. Davy Chou

27. BARBARIAN, dir. Zach Cregger

26. HIT THE ROAD, dir. Panah Panahi

25. CATHERINE CALLED BIRDY, dir. Lena Dunham

24. CORSAGE, dir. Marie Kreutzer

23. REFLECTION, dir. Valentyn Vasyanovych

22. BENEDICTION, dir. Terrence Davies

21. WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR, dir. Jane Schoenbrun

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Corsage (2022)