I’d be remiss not to also mention: Emilia Jones in CODA, Rebecca Ferguson in Dune, Regina King in The Harder They Fall, Eugénie Derouand in The Advent Calendar, Ingrid Sophie Schram in My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To, Mia Wasikowska in Bergman Island
A book companion to Paul Thomas Anderson’sPhantom Thread, focusing on the women that populate the fictional House of Woodcock and that surround Reynolds Woodcock.
A new picture of Alma Hasun (Franziska “Fanny” Feifalik) and Vicky Krieps (Empress Elisabeth “Sisi”) has been released by Alamode Film alongside the announcement that Corsage (2022) will premiere at Cannes Film Festival.
“[Paul Thomas Anderson] saw my movie [The Chambermaid Lynn], which was a very small German movie — no one saw it… He saw it, of all people, and that’s how I got into the casting process [for Phantom Thread].
Later I said to Paul, ‘But why did you watch that movie?’ Because no one watched the movie! And he said, ‘I don’t know, I was interested by the poster.’ And I said, ‘Yeah, but why were you interested?’ He said, ‘I don’t know, because of your face… I think I have seen you before.’ So I said ‘But where? It’s impossible!’ And then we came to the realization that he had seen Philip Seymour Hoffman’s last movie, which was A Most Wanted Man.
I play a very small role… Something that we laughed about was that maybe it was Philip Seymour Hoffman — who I liked a lot during the shoot — who put us together. Maybe it was his plan that Paul would see my next movie.” –Vicky Krieps (inPaul Thomas Anderson: Masterworks by Adam Nayman)
This was more horror than I was originally expecting. To be fair I only knew the bare minimum of the plot.
It’s a freaky premise, where a beach causes rapid aging to all that stay there. Visitors are trapped though and the rapid aging is fatal.
It does create an interesting human question: how would one react to getting old in a blink of an eye. the kids going from 6 to teenagers, a baby being born, illness is worse.
I found it choppy and disconcerting, which I think was the point. As a viewer I wanted people to be better. Out of less than 10 people there was an asshole who was just terrible. And perhaps that was due to his mental illness, but still, 10 people one of which was acting like a terrible person. I always just want better from humanity.
Like most Shyamalan movies there was a twisting in the ending, and this time it tied things up in a bow. You find out who was behind the groups of people being sent to the beach, why they are doing it.
It doesn’t explain the island/beach though, but how to explain a natural phenomenon? Overall, the movie was ok. I didn’t love it or hate it, it was just ok. I do think I was hoping for more.
Christmas 1877. Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, turns 40. It is the average life expectancy of a woman in the late 19th century. So Elisabeth is now officially an old woman. As empress, she has exclusively representative duties. She lives locked in the courtly ritual, her duties and the expectations that are placed on her. At forty, she can soon no longer be a symbol of beauty. But what is left to her if she is no longer worshiped, but merely respected?
CORSAGE (2022, dir. Marie Kreutzer) with VICKY KRIEPS, COLIN MORGAN, FINNEGAN OLDFIELD & ALMA HASUN
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