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- 90VarietyJessica KiangVarietyJessica KiangFull of odd glitches and deliberate flubs in period detail, the film feels like an invitation into a secret conspiracy to reach back through time and, with deft, irreverent 21st-century fingers, loosen the stays on Empress Elisabeth’s corsetry just a little.
- 83The PlaylistRafaela Sales RossThe PlaylistRafaela Sales RossCorsage succeeds precisely by ditching the myth of objectivity in favor of portraying a woman eternalized by the glory and dolor of her imperfections.
- 80CineVueJohn BleasdaleCineVueJohn BleasdaleKreutzer employs a variety of subtle anachronisms – servants wearing modern glasses, a concrete wall here and there – to allow herself and Krieps the freedom to introduce a modern sensibility that sticks a middle finger up at the polished production design of most films of this genre as casually as Elisabeth does at the decorum of her courtly life.
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawIn many ways this is a study in anger, and it is an austere and angular picture. Krieps gives an exhilaratingly fierce, uningratiating performance.
- 80Time OutAnna SmithTime OutAnna SmithKreutzer has her own style of revisionist feminist history, and aided by Krieps’s bold and brilliant turn, it’s riveting stuff.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinThe Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinCorsage . . . although a late entry to the disaffected royalty subcategory, is arguably one of the most interesting so far, much closer to the ludic, imaginative queen of the genre, Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette (2006).
- 75IndieWireAdam SolomonsIndieWireAdam SolomonsAlthough Corsage makes a worthy attempt to recast Elisabeth as independent of her constraints, its final note leaves it feeling a little too much like its own sort of requiem.
- 75Slant MagazineKeith WatsonSlant MagazineKeith WatsonWriter-director Marie Kreutzer’s boldly restive biopic imagines Empress Elisabeth of Austria as a deeply restless soul chafing against the social limitations of her day.