IFC Films has nabbed North American rights to “Corsage,” Marie Kreutzer’s daring costume drama starring Vicky Krieps as the Empress Elisabeth of Austria recognized as Sissi.
Represented in worldwide markets by MK2 Films, the film world premiered at Cannes’ Un Sure Regard and earned unanimous reward. It’s to this point some of the acclaimed movies taking part in on the Cannes Movie Competition and was circled by a number of different distributors. IFC Films additionally simply scooped North American rights to Cristian Mungiu’s “R.M.N.,” one other Cannes movie, forward of its world premiere on the pageant.
“Corsage” facilities on Empress Elisabeth of Austria. The monarch is idolized for her magnificence and famend for uplifting trend developments, however in 1877, “Sissi” – as she is understood – celebrates her fortieth birthday and should combat to take care of her public picture by lacing her corset tighter and tighter. Whereas Elisabeth’s position has been lowered towards her needs to purely performative, her starvation for data and zest for all times makes her increasingly more stressed in Vienna.
She travels to England and Bavaria, visiting former lovers and previous mates, searching for the joy and function of her youth. With a way forward for strictly ceremonial duties specified by entrance of her, Elisabeth rebels towards the hyperbolized picture of herself and comes up with a plan to guard her legacy.
Krieps, who broke out within the Oscar-nominated “Phantom Thread,” can also be recognized for her position in Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Bergman Island,” which was in competitors in Cannes. She was nominated for a César for Mathieu Amalric’s “Maintain Me Tight” and just lately wrapped Pathé’s large funds two-part film “The Three Musketeers.”
Krieps’s efficiency as the stressed empress has been broadly applauded by critics, together with Selection’s Jessica Kiang who stated it marked Krieps’s “finest showcase for her defiantly peculiar charisma since ‘Phantom Thread;’” and described the film as a “witty subversion of biopic and costume-drama clichés.”
“Corsage” was produced by A Movie AG manufacturing, in co-production with Samsa Movie, Komplizen Movie, Kazak Productions, ORF Movie/Fernseh-Abkommen, ZDF/ARTE, ARTE France Cinéma.
