Empress Elisabeth of Austria would have totally been a BUST reader if we had been around in the 1800s. Director Marie Kreutzer brings the empress's story to life in this breathtaking film, in theaters now. Corsage
As any former goth could tell you, rebellion doesn’t necessarily lead to self-discovery, let alone happiness. Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage reveals another unpleasant truth of this eternal impulse: that the way one chooses to rebel often replicates the nastiest, most destructive aspects of what one is fighting against.
—her endless traveling, her extreme diet and exercise regimens, her interest in mental asylums—which Kreutzer frames as arising not simply from Elisabeth’s hatred of Austrian court life but also from the alternately repellant and satisfying feeling of being desired.ADVERTISEMENT In a series of vignettes connected only by her unease, the empress travels around Europe the year she turns 40, in 1877, seeking and eschewing attention.
When Kreutzer inserts ahistorical details into an otherwise accurate portrait of the past—an acapella version of Marianne Faithfull’s “As Tears Go By,” for example—they, like Elisabeth herself, stand out but make perfect emotional sense. Elisabeth's inability to rest or feel satisfied for much longer than it takes to eat a slice of cake transcends time.Jazmyne Hambrick is a senior at Life University, and She is pursuing her bachelor's degree in Human Ecology/Media and Communications.
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