CORSAGE Q&A | TIFF 2022

The team behind CORSAGE in conversation with TIFF in advance of its premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. A visually stunning contemporary waltz through the life of the extravagant Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Vicky Krieps), whose beauty and corsetry was famed in lands far and wide. The 47th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 8 to 18, 2022. For more, visit . It’s Christmastime, 1877, in the Austro- Hungarian capital of Vienna, and Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Vicky Krieps) is celebrating her 40th birthday alongside her husband, Emperor Franz Joseph (Florian Teichtmeister), and their hoity-toity royal guests. Whispers murmur that it’s all downhill from there, and her image — including her infamously ever-cinched corset — is under increasing scrutiny. After the festivities, with her roles increasingly reduced to that of ceremonial appearances such as visiting injured soldiers and waving to her hardscrabble and often uncongenial subjects, Elisabe