Amidst a sea of dull, insipid, even sadistic takes on the beautiful, suffering royal lady story we’ve seen, Corsage breaks like the sun through the clouds.
Just like the movie-within-a-movie style Hansen-Løve uses to tell the story, her latest film is a layered, intelligent work full of reflection about art, life, and relationships.
A family on a tropical holiday discovers that the beach where they are at is somehow causing them to age rapidly reducing their entire lives into one day.
Upon first viewing, Phantom Thread is utterly irresistible, but the dense themes and examinations of inter-character relationships means that it is the rare Anderson effort that will only be upgraded to masterpiece status once it has fully been processed after multiple viewings.