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UNCOVERED: Marie kreutzer - Caught on Camera

Lea Seydoux's Gentle Monster casting was like a 'puzzle falling into place'

Director Marie Kreutzer has insisted former Bond girl Lea Seydoux was the perfect person for the part.

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Lea Seydoux wants 'dangerous' jobs

Lea Seydoux wants to "take risks" with her career now she's older.

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Lea Seydoux loved starring in Gentle Monster, but why?

Lea Seydoux has reflected on the experience of shooting Gentle Monster.

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Little glitz and underperforming auteurs: how Cannes 2026 went – and who will win

As this year’s Cannes ordinaire draws to a close, our chief critic examines what went wrong and predicts the who’ll take home the prizes – including the fabled Braddies

The Guardian - UK

Gentle Monster review – disquieting drama about two women facing the truth about the men they love

Cannes film festival: Léa Seydoux is a wife and mother whose life unravels when police arrive to quiz her husband; Jella Haase is a detective dealing with her ailing father’s misdeeds

The Guardian - UK

Vicky Krieps on playing a dark empress

The actor spoke about learning Hungarian, horseback riding, fencing and ice swimming to embody the rebellious royal

Salon

‘Corsage’ review: Vicky Krieps excels as an Austrian empress throwing away caution, pomp and circumstance

We’ll be dealing with dramatizations of the lives of royals forever, if only because the public/private schism of They Who Wear The Crowns and those who live in their vicinity is so temptingly easy to map out on paper. All that circumstantial pomp, all those game-day faces and manners, colliding…

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Corsage review – Vicky Krieps mesmerises as a rebellious 19th-century royal

The defiance and despair of glamorous Elisabeth of Austria, trapped in a loveless marriage, has a familiar ring in Marie Kreutzer’s stately psychodrama

The Guardian - UK

Vicky Krieps, director bring a modern edge to Austria’s Empress Elisabeth in ‘Corsage’

The film is not your standard costume picture, or even a straightforward biopic for both practical and thematic reasons.

Chicago Sun-Times

Vicky Krieps considers making the acclaimed 'Corsage' 'a mistake.' Here's why

Vicky Krieps brings a sense of spontaneity and live-wire unpredictability to every role she plays, from her breakout performance in Paul Thomas Anderson's "Phantom Thread" opposite Daniel Day-Lewis to her new, celebrated part in Marie Kreutzer's "Corsage."

Los Angeles Times

‘Corsage’ gives a modern edge to Austria's Empress Elisabeth

Vicky Krieps stars as Empress Elisabeth of Austria in the new film “Corsage,” which was recently shortlisted for an Oscar nomination and is now playing in limited release

The Independent UK

Corsage review: Vicky Krieps is a haunted royal with a 19.5-inch waist in this tastefully anachronistic romp

As she already proved in ‘Phantom Thread’, Krieps is uniquely gifted in portraying women with an active disdain for polite society

The Independent UK

Austere drama about Austrian empress wins top prize at London film festival

Corsage, directed by Marie Kreutzer, hailed as ‘mesmerising’ imagining of a year in life of Elisabeth in 1877

The Guardian - UK

London film festival 2022: Peter Bradshaw’s top 12 picks

A new Sam Mendes drama, Noah Baumbach adapts Don DeLillo and an amazing debut by Charlotte Wells: the Guardian’s chief film critic chooses his must-sees

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Sisi-mania: first royal celebrity celebrated in cinemas and on Netflix

The story of Elisabeth, empress of Austria, is being brought to life again with multiple films, TV shows and a novel

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Corsage review – a cry of anger from the pedestal-prison of an empress

Vicky Krieps puts in a star turn as lonely, patronised Elizabeth of Austria in Marie Kreutzer’s austere drama

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