‘Corsage’: The Story of the Original Princess Diana

Dec 23 2022 by The Daily Beast

 
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The monarchy is in decline, and so too is Empress Elisabeth of Austria, in Corsage, Marie Kreutzer’s biographical portrait of the 19th-century royal, who has often been likened to Princess Diana because of her subjugation at the hands of a patriarchal system that affords women imprisonment rather than freedom.

A kindred spirit to Pablo Larraín’s Spencer and Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, the writer/director’s follow-up to The Ground Beneath My...

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