In the opening moments of Corsage, a maid is heard saying, "She worries me so much. She is Empress Elisabeth of Austria, and as she gets out of the bath, the two maids there offer her different tales of just how long she was able to hold her breath. Elisabeth (also known as Sissi) doesn't care about the truth, just like writer-director Marie Kreutzer doesn't care about it either. 

Although Corsage is based on the real-life Austrian empress, little else in the movie appears to be based on actual events, and what is blended in with what isn't appears to be done on purpose to make the audience wonder how these kinds of stories are conveyed. Corsage is powered by Vicky Krieps' excellent performance and its willingness to defy genre norms in favour of a gloomy and surreal fairy tale. It is a hybrid of revisionist history and an unorthodox character study.

Twenty years before Elisabeth's assassination in 1898, Corsage opens in december 1877 and follows a year in her life. Elisabeth seems unattached to her husband Franz Joseph I (Florian Teichtmeister), only caring about herself and her daughter Valerie (Rosa Hajjaj). On the eve of turning 40, she is obviously bothered by ageing and trying to cause as many minor hiccups as she can. Elisabeth poses as having a fainting episode in front of the arrival committee during a celebration in the movie's opening minutes. She engages in flirtatious behaviour with her stable boy and develops an acquaintanceship with Louis Le Prince (Finnegan Oldfield), who is regarded as the father of Cinematography.

Even if just because it so heavily favours the alternate history it portrays, Corsage's conclusion is one of its most contentious features. Elisabeth might finally achieve her goal of freedom, but the relationship with the events that came before feels shaky. It is difficult to determine if the Empress' deterioration is a deliberate action on her part or a sign of a deeper problem as a result of several distinct scenarios that would enter spoiler zone if discussed here. Although the idea of Elisabeth's agency has been played with throughout Corsage, the ambiguity doesn't quite work.

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corsage review

G GOWTHAM

08/01/2023 12:35 PM