OVERVIEW: Phantom Thread (2018)
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feather_ghyllI am partly bothering to post about this so that I could use the icon.
Phantom Thread (released this weekend) (rated 15 for strong language)
Written and directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Vicky Krieps and Lesley Manville.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5776858/
There's also the fact that this is an excellent film, perhaps the one I've enjoyed the most by Anderson (I have also seen There Will Be Blood and Punch-Drunk Love, and admired the former, certainly). This film is like one of those artisanal dark chocolates with a random ingredient*. It was not the film I was expecting it to be, which rather exhilerated me. The writer-director is very much in control.
Set in a London 1950s fashion hourse, the rightly lauded Daniel Day-Lewis plays Reynolds Woodcock, a dress designer. His life is run according to his demands by his sister Cyril, played by Lesley Manville, who has also been BAFTA nominated, but there seem to have been few awards for Vicky Krieps, playing Alma, the waitress who trips into Woodcock's life, becoming his muse and latest love affair. Krieps fully deserves award attention - what she does with her face! - because it is a two-hander about their relationship, with Alma providing the narration. Perhaps there's a touch of Hitchcock's influence about this film, but it's its own thing and a Freudian would have a good deal of fun with it.
*mushrooms, perhaps.
Phantom Thread (released this weekend) (rated 15 for strong language)
Written and directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Vicky Krieps and Lesley Manville.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5776858/
There's also the fact that this is an excellent film, perhaps the one I've enjoyed the most by Anderson (I have also seen There Will Be Blood and Punch-Drunk Love, and admired the former, certainly). This film is like one of those artisanal dark chocolates with a random ingredient*. It was not the film I was expecting it to be, which rather exhilerated me. The writer-director is very much in control.
Set in a London 1950s fashion hourse, the rightly lauded Daniel Day-Lewis plays Reynolds Woodcock, a dress designer. His life is run according to his demands by his sister Cyril, played by Lesley Manville, who has also been BAFTA nominated, but there seem to have been few awards for Vicky Krieps, playing Alma, the waitress who trips into Woodcock's life, becoming his muse and latest love affair. Krieps fully deserves award attention - what she does with her face! - because it is a two-hander about their relationship, with Alma providing the narration. Perhaps there's a touch of Hitchcock's influence about this film, but it's its own thing and a Freudian would have a good deal of fun with it.
*mushrooms, perhaps.
