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PHANTOM THREAD
2017
Director
Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring
Daniel Day-Lewis
Vicky Krieps
Lesley Manville
Runtime
130 minutes
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Renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister (Lesley Manville) are at the center of British fashion in the 1950s, dressing royalty, movie stars and socialites with the distinct style of the House of Woodcock. Women come and go through the confirmed bachelor’s orbit – until he comes across young, strong-willed Alma (Vicky Krieps), who becomes his muse and lover, disrupting his carefully tailored life.
For all its forbidding, foreboding atmosphere, PHANTOM THREAD is a surpassingly funny movie, and the satisfaction of seeing a figure as singularly fastidious as Reynolds come progressively unruffled has a component of pure, ecstatic schadenfreude. Few directors are as fascinated by the spectacle of carefully maintained facades crumbling as Paul Thomas Anderson. PHANTOM THREAD imagines a scenario where the journey from hubris to humiliation results not only in a leveling effect, but a kind of liberation as well. And though its deeply impactful New Year’s scenes are relatively brief, the film is the cinematic equivalent of foggy breath on a brisk January morning.
For all its forbidding, foreboding atmosphere, PHANTOM THREAD is a surpassingly funny movie, and the satisfaction of seeing a figure as singularly fastidious as Reynolds come progressively unruffled has a component of pure, ecstatic schadenfreude. Few directors are as fascinated by the spectacle of carefully maintained facades crumbling as Paul Thomas Anderson. PHANTOM THREAD imagines a scenario where the journey from hubris to humiliation results not only in a leveling effect, but a kind of liberation as well. And though its deeply impactful New Year’s scenes are relatively brief, the film is the cinematic equivalent of foggy breath on a brisk January morning.