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EXCLUSIVE: Fresh from portraying Empress Elisabeth of Austria in Corsage, Luxembourgish actress Vicky Krieps takes on another iconic figure from Austrian culture in German director Margarethe von Trotta's Berlin Competition title Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey Into The Desert. Born in Austria in 1926…

Patti Smith hosted a New York screening of Corsage last week, one of many showings since the Oscar-shortlisted Best International Feature contender premiered to a warm welcome in Cannes, where it won Best Performance, Un Certain Regard, for star Vicky Krieps as the Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Sisi for…

Vicky Krieps says she suffered physically for her art on the shoot of Austrian director Marie Kreutzer's Corsage, revisiting the life of the legendary 19th century Empress Elisabeth of Austria with a contemporary, emancipated eye. The Luxembourgish actress, who was a driving force behind the film and…

The historical drama Corsage centers on the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria in 1877, yet the film's writer-director Marie Kreutzer says its message about female oppression still resonates today. “I thought this could be a good story about women at that time but still today, still being raised…

EXCLUSIVE: Corsage and Phantom Thread star Vicky Krieps has been set to lead ghost story Went Up The Hill with Stranger Things actor Dacre Montgomery. Currently in pre-production, the film will chart how after being abandoned as a child, Jack (Montgomery) ventures to remote New Zealand to attend the…

Austrian filmmaker Marie Kreutzer clinched the best film award in the main Official Competition of the 66th London Film Festival with her latest feature Corsage, starring Vicky Krieps. The historical drama, which is also the Austrian entry for the best international feature film Oscar race, follows…

Viggo Mortensen is set to direct and star alongside Vicky Krieps in the western love story The Dead Don't Hurt. The film will start shooting on October 12 in Canada. The film is a Talipot Studio, Recorded Picture, and Perceval Pictures production, produced by Regina Solórzano (Los Reyes del Mundo)…

As a young girl, Corsage star Vicky Krieps was a big fan of the 1950s Sissi series of films. When, at age 14, she read a biography about the real-life Empress Elisabeth, she was convinced somebody should make a movie that delved into her story. "I saw these Romy Schneider movies when I was a little girl and because in…

The Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard sidebar handed out its prizes tonight with top honors going to Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret's The Worst Ones (Les Pires). The Jury Prize was awarded to Saim Sadig's Joyland, the first Pakistani movie ever in official selection at Cannes. The Worst Ones is a drama about a…

Director Emily Atef's Cannes Un Certain Regard drama More Than Ever stars Vicky Krieps as Hélène, a woman in her early 30s suffering from pulmonary fibrosis who travels from France to the fjords of Norway to try to come to terms with her unfair lot in life. Atef, who stopped by Deadline's Cannes Studio with Krieps…

Director Emily Atef’s Cannes Un Certain Regard drama More Than Ever is a careful, fastidious, Tradition of Quality film about impending death that's easy to admire but won't exactly pack 'em in. Vicky Krieps impresses yet again, here playing a woman in her early 30s suffering from a likely fatal condition who travels…

It took the Empress Elisabeth's strongest lady's maid an hour every morning to lace her stays. The Emperor Franz-Joseph's wife Sissi, as she was fondly known to the subjects of the Austro-Hungarian empire, was famous for the narrowness of her waist, which reputedly measured 19 and a half inches; the slightest weight…