Phantom Thread (2017)
Genre: Drama / Romance
Duration: 130 minuten
Country:
United States / United Kingdom
Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson
Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Vicky Krieps and Lesley Manville
IMDb score:
7,4 (160.602)
Releasedate: 25 December 2017
Phantom Thread plot
In post-war London, a famous tailor named Reynolds Woodcock and his sister Cyril are at the center of the British fashion industry. They make clothes for royal families and noblemen there. Women enter the life of the lone tailor, offer him inspiration and companionship, then leave again. Until one day he meets Alma, a young, strong-willed woman who quickly becomes the center of his life and turns his tightly directed and planned life upside down.
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Actors and actresses
Reynolds Woodcock
Alma Elson
Cyril Woodcock
Johanna
Countess Henrietta Harding
Dr. Robert Hardy
Barbara Rose
Princess Mona Braganza
Lady Baltimore
London Housekeeper
Reviews & comments
Onderhond
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- 87623 messages
- 12889 votes
uuuughh.
PT Anderson was once a fresh, fun director. Someone who could put down a good film with some panache and flexibility. But after PDL it changed. Inherent Vice saw some improvement then, but with Phantom Thread it's all back to square one. What a boring movie this was.
Unfortunately, Daniel Day-Lewis knows nothing about his character. A rural artist who considers himself very important and who goes his own way, not exactly unseen. The interpretation is also very by the book, the only striking thing was that DDL's voice reminded me of a slightly nicer Werner Herzog. The romance with Krieps also means little, much weight but little wool.
Visually it is especially ugly. If that's the way it's meant to be, kudos, but that doesn't make me any happier. Also very boring, without remarkable shots or fascinating camera work. The restless close-ups are the most noticeable, but in the meantime they are not exactly exciting or original anymore.
Soundtrack is also unbearable. Very present, very sentimental and annoying. It also makes it all so very weighty and serious, while the film's set-up is so simple. PDL makes very classic choices, which only makes the film more corny.
130 minutes is therefore quite a task. Don't have much hope for PTA in the meantime. The talent may still be hidden somewhere, but somewhere he has changed is a very old guy who lost his playful touch long ago. The resulting films are therefore barely visible.
1.0*
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blurp194
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- 5543 messages
- 4226 votes
The unbearable lightness of being a tailor.
Daniel Day-Lewis is a very, very good actor - and he has to be for this role, because such an annoying and nasty person like this Woodcock you don't just put down. Brilliant in the complexity and depth of his character - as in the lovely review in The Guardian, the perfect gentleman: 'someone who never gives offense accidentally'. But meanwhile manipulate everything and everyone around him, so that before the film is halfway through you already hate him. What is poor dear Krieps doing with such a guy's device, you might wonder, but that's exactly what the film is about of course. Krieps plays just as well as DDL, by the way, with the occasional ingenious facial expression - I think she can play poker very well. Just like the also very beautiful role of Lesley Manville as the sister Cyril - also such a deadpan face.
But what a viewing party it is now. In any case, it is already somewhat comical to see the often not too beautiful ladies transform with a new dress - although that is of course a matter of taste, and not all creations are equally successful. Apparently those dresses are well paid, because the house in which the Woodcocks live is beautiful, beautiful large windows, beautiful furniture and here and there a sculpture or something. And the outdoor venues are just as opulent - more marble than an ordinary person sees in a lifetime. And a nice old car too.
There's really only one thing I really don't like about the movie - the music. Often just a little too present, and just a little too much the piano variant of elevator music. Only in the end does it fit well.
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Kooiker
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- 153 messages
- 116 votes
Awesome movie. Mainly about manipulation, both his and hers. Both play great. I knew about Daniel, but Vicky is not inferior. And that's saying something to such an actor. Huge subcutaneous tension in everyone around him. But he is also pathetic as an addict to his work. Fantastic character study.
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