Two centuries ago, the Empress Sissi, scrutinized and ordered to be silent, was “a victim of her image”, as are the influencers today, confided in an interview the actress Vicky Krieps who embodies her in Bodice.
A rebellious empress with a tragic destiny, sometimes sketched as Lady Di of the 19th century, Sissi, whose myth made Romy Schneider famous, continues to inspire directors in search of an avant-garde and romantic female personality.
This is the case in this biopic by Austrian director Marie Kreutzer, which is reminiscent of Marie-Antoinette dressed in 2006 by director Sofia Coppola in Converse and macaroons as a queen plagued by boredom and depression.
“Instagram photos make us more and more victims of our image, as Sissi was too,” said Vicky Krieps during an interview in Cannes. The one who came up with the idea for the film puts on the dresses of François-Joseph I’s wife in this new, feminist and twilight version of the Empress’s life.
For the role, the 39-year-old actress had to wear a corset like Sissi, a woman “on the verge of a nervous breakdown and collapse”. “It was hard, it squeezes the solar plexus, where all the nerves are hooked. It takes away the emotions, I was stuck in my emotions, I couldn’t get out my sadness or my joy, ”she testifies.
Summoned to be silent, to smile, not to interfere in the affairs of the empire, she will sink into melancholy in her forties. What to break the myth with rose water of a life of princess of fairy tale.
With its anachronistic decors mixing period furniture and electric lamps, and its soundtrack signed by the French singer and composer Camille with rock hits taken up on the harp, Corsage also intends to talk about today.
With social networks in particular, “in all the functions that we take, in all professional environments, beauty takes on a role, and that is not good at all! If we are beautiful or beautiful, we take up more space, we listen to you better, (…) and that is the worst”, comments the Luxembourg actress, revealed in Phantom Thread.
In addition to this film, Sissi notably inspired a series this year, The Empress, broadcast on Netflix which has planned a second season.
Source: AFP
Two centuries ago, the Empress Sissi, scrutinized and ordered to be silent, was “a victim of her image”, as are the influencers today, confided in an interview the actress Vicky Krieps who embodies her in Bodice. A rebellious empress with a tragic destiny, sometimes sketched as Lady Di of the 19th century, Sissi, whose myth made Romy Schneider famous,…