{"id":11822,"date":"2022-08-31T17:22:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T17:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?page_id=11822"},"modified":"2023-01-12T19:43:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T19:43:32","slug":"corsage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/corsage\/","title":{"rendered":"CORSAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1663686455972{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">CORSAGE<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=&#8221;20&#8243;][vc_separator color=&#8221;custom&#8221; accent_color=&#8221;#ea1300&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1663827691745{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Wednesday, October 12<\/strong> &#8211; Renoir Theatre \u2013 8:10 pm<br \/>\n<em>(Screening ends at 10:20 pm)<br \/>\n<\/em>+ <a href=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/short-films-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Short Film Presentation<\/a>: THE ONE WHO NEVER WATCHED FRIENDS<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>FICTION \/ DRAMA, BIOPIC<br \/>\nWORLD CINEMA CO-PRODUCED BY FRANCE<\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1663820874883{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ea1300;\">Presented in Association with:<br \/>\n<\/span>MK2 Films<br \/>\nIFC Films<br \/>\nAir Tahiti Nui<br \/>\nWomen in Film<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/order-tickets.jpg&#8221; image_size=&#8221;full&#8221; link=&#8221;https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.eventive.org\/schedule\/63266ccef933c80053e8f46f&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=&#8221;20&#8243;][vc_separator color=&#8221;custom&#8221; accent_color=&#8221;#ea1300&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1673552609550{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]<span style=\"color: #ea1300;\"><b>West Coast Premiere<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> | <b>Official Austrian Entry &#8211;\u00a0 Academy Awards 2023<\/b><br \/>\nAustria, Luxemburg, Germany, France, Hungary\u00a0|\u00a02022\u00a0|\u00a0Drama, Biopic |\u00a0113\u00a0min\u00a0|\u00a0In English, German, French and Hungarian with English subtitles <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Directed by<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marie Kreutzer<br \/>\n<\/span><b>Written by<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marie Kreutzer<br \/>\n<\/span><b>Produced by<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Alexander Glehr &amp; Johanna Scherz (Film AG Produktion) Janine Jackowski &amp; Jonas Dornbach <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Komplizen Film), Jani Thiltges, Claude Waringo (Samasa Film), Jean-Christophe Reymond &amp; Amaury Ovise (Kazak Productions),<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Vicky Krieps, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0ZDF, Arte<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Cinematography<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Judith Kaufmann<br \/>\n<\/span><b>Film Editing<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Ulrike Kofler<br \/>\n<\/span><b>Original Score<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Camille<br \/>\n<\/span><b>Cast<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vicky Krieps (Elisabeth), Florian Teichtmeister (Emperor Franz Joseph), Katharina Lorenz (Marie Festetics), Jeanne Werner (Ida Ferenczy), Finnegan Oldfield (Louis le Prince), Colin Morgan (Bay Middleton), Alma Hasun (Fanny Feifalik)<br \/>\n<\/span><b>International Sales<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MK2 Films<br \/>\n<\/span><b>U.S. Distributor<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: IFC Films<br \/>\n<\/span><b>U.S. Release<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: December 23, 2022\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vicky Krieps is nothing short of breathtaking in <b>Marie Kreutzer<\/b>&#8216;s scintillating period piece, <b><i>Corsage<\/i><\/b>. In fact, it was at her behest that the director even considered making a film about Empress Elisabeth of Austria \u2014 whose life has already been immortalized in a trilogy of kitschy 1950s &#8220;Sissi&#8221; movies, starring Romy Schneider, which are practically cult films in France. Those baubles couldn&#8217;t be further from this sublime opus, which portrays the young empress with a hunger for knowledge and a zest for life in the face of suffocating conventions. This fictional account of her later years, peppered with bold stylistic and historical anachronisms, begins on Christmas Eve of 1877, as Elisabeth turns 40. Once idolized for her great beauty, she is now officially deemed an old hag, and launches into a draconian regimen of starvation diets, grueling gymnastics, meticulous hair styling and, most importantly, daily measurements of her waist, cinching her whalebone corsetry tighter and tighter to ensure that her bodice \u2014 or <i>corsage<\/i> in French \u2014is so tiny that it may one day disappear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Austrian writer\/director <\/span><b>Marie Kreutzer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> studied literature and dramaturgy at the Vienna Film Academy. After writing and directing a half dozen shorts, she directed 30 episodes of the groundbreaking Austrian series <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sendung ohne Namen<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2003-2012). Her first feature, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Fatherless<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2011), won the Grand Prize at Austria&#8217;s Diagonale film festival and a Best First Feature Honorable Mention in Berlin. That was followed by <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guber is Leaving<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2015); the comedy <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We Used to Be Cool<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2016), which also starred Vicky Krieps; and the Austrian TV movie <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Die Notl\u00fcge<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2017).\u00a0 Her next feature, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ground Beneath Your Feet<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2019), was screened in competition at the Berlin Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Award at L.A. Outfest. The following year she collaborated on the script for Ulrike Kofler&#8217;s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What We Wanted<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2020), then wrote and directed the TV movie <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vier<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2022).<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><b><i>Corsage<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> premiered at this year&#8217;s Cannes Film Festival, in the Un Certain Regard section, where Vicky Krieps easily made off with the Best Performance prize.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The film <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has been selected to represent Austria at the Academy Awards in the best international feature category.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][mk_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/corsage.jpg&#8221; image_size=&#8221;full&#8221; frame_style=&#8221;gray_border&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1663686455972{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;] CORSAGE [\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=&#8221;20&#8243;][vc_separator color=&#8221;custom&#8221; accent_color=&#8221;#ea1300&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1663827691745{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;] Wednesday, October 12 &#8211; Renoir Theatre \u2013 8:10 pm (Screening ends at 10:20 pm) + Short Film Presentation: THE ONE WHO NEVER WATCHED FRIENDS FICTION \/ DRAMA, BIOPIC WORLD CINEMA CO-PRODUCED BY FRANCE [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1663820874883{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;] Presented in Association with: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11822","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11822"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13519,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11822\/revisions\/13519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}