Krieps Tag

Vicky Krieps in CorsageImage: Courtesy of Felix Vratny. An IFC Movies ReleaseThe primary draft for this review was cheeky and short: “Vicky Krieps. That’s it. That’s the review.” And while the presence of the Phantom Thread star alone must be enough to entice you to look at writer-director Marie Kreutzer’s sumptuous drama Corsage (in select theaters December 23), there are many delights to be present in this fictional retelling of a yr within the lifetime of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. However, to scale back the film’s tender yet exacting visuals as well its modern aural riffs to “delights” is to disclaim the way in which Corsage is a masterful and melancholy meditation on loneliness with a sucker punch of an...