Vicky Krieps Hopes Corsage Reminds Women They Can Be ‘Difficult’ and Still ‘Shine’
In Marie Kreutzer’s new film Corsage (out Dec. 23), we meet Empress Elisabeth of Austria on the cusp of her 40th birthday. As the 19th-century empress once wrote in her diary, it’s the age where “a person begins to disperse and fade, darkening like a cloud.” The line is voiced in the film, revealing so much about what the protagonist, and what society at the time, made of getting older. Vicky Krieps, the Luxembourg-born star of the film and its executive producer, first brought the project to Kreutzer because she...