Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread) delivers a Cannes-winning performance as Empress Elisabeth of Austria in Corsage, returning from last year’s New Zealand International Film Festival for a nationwide theatrical run from 16 March.
UPDATE: This giveaway is now closed and winners have been contacted.
Corsage
Here’s the official synopsis: Empress Elisabeth of Austria is idolized for her beauty and renowned for inspiring fashion trends. But in 1877, ‘Sissi’ celebrates her 40th birthday and must fight to maintain her public image by lacing her corset tighter and tighter. While Elisabeth’s role has been reduced against her wishes to purely performative, her hunger for knowledge and zest for life makes her more and more restless in Vienna.
She travels to England and Bavaria, visiting former lovers and old friends, seeking the excitement and purpose of her youth. With a future of strictly ceremonial duties laid out in front of her, Elisabeth rebels against the hyperbolized image of herself and comes up with a plan to protect her legacy.
Here’s the official trailer.
Here’s the official quote inside the coveted Flicks Recommends laurels: A lavish production, Marie Kreutzer’s revisionist portrayal of the famously eccentric Empress Elisabeth thrums with Vicky Krieps’ magnetic performance, prompting rumination upon loss, responsibility, nihilism, aging, and the particularly gendered tension of ‘staying in one’s lane’. Beautiful.
And here’s what you stand to win.
TO GET IN THE DRAW…
1. Sign-up to Flicks’ weekly email – What to Watch (if you are already signed-up, you’re halfway there).
2. Send us an email, with your postal address, to team@flicks.co.nz with ‘Queen Krieps’ in the subject line.
3. Await victory. Entries are open until midday, Friday 17 March and winners will be contacted by email.
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