PREVIEW: Corsage (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread), Florian Teichtmeister (Life Guidance), Katharina Lorenz (Return of the Storks), Jeanne Werner (The Colony), Alma Hasun (Woman in Gold), Manuel Rubey (High Performance), Finnegan Oldfield (Reinventing Marvin), Aaron Friesz (Shillings from Heaven), Rosa Hajjaj (film debut), Lilly Marie Tschörtner (Parkour), Colin Morgan (Belfast)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Marie Kreutzer (We Used To Be Cool), director, writer; Alexander Glehr (Taking It Back) and Johanna Scherz (What We Wanted), producers; Camille (Fever), composer; Judith Kaufmann (When We Leave), cinematographer; Ulrike Kofler (The Fatherless), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In 1877, Austrian Empress Elisabeth (Krieps) turns 40 and is declared an old woman. Over the course of the next year, she struggles to maintain her carefully constructed public image…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Filmmaker Marie Kreutzer’s fictional take on the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, portrayed in the film by a magnificent Vicky Krieps, is a funny and provocative commentary on the societal discard of women past a certain age.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

MONDAY 26TH DECEMBER 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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