Review of Corsage (2022) by Bertobellamy — 27 Jan 2023

'Corsage' employs anachronisms to create a character with whom people could empathize or sympathize. Some work and others don´t, but Vicky Krieps as Empress Elisabeth of Austria commands this show with an astounding performance of a woman trapped in a golden cage.

I don't find dramas about privileged people "suffering" — I'm looking at you 'Spencer' — absorbing. Still, it's impossible not to feel attracted by Krieps' magnetic presence, the costume design, and the liberties the story takes to portray the state of mind of a woman playing by her terms in a squared world.