Vicky Krieps: "The female body is a cage, we are always defined by it"

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The princess is sad.

And sore.

And the fault lies not so much with her desire to be "hypsipile that she left the chrysalis", as Rubén Darío's Sonatina says, but rather with a simple and very tight corset.

(corset in French) is precisely the original title of

and, in its own way, the burden of proof of the film by Marie Kreutzer and played by

.

Suddenly, that empress

who dressed with such care every Christmas night from the hand of the trilogy signed by

and Ernst Marischka lives an update that is also prodigy.

The Austrian film nominated for the Oscars was a revelation at the last Cannes Film Festival and confirmed the leading actress (as well as producer) as more than just the queen of the year.

After an impeccable filmography that includes titles such as

and the now-on -screen Hold Me Tight

Krieps achieves excellence in this updated portrait of the feminine condition, the harassed woman and the princesses who they were by masculine rather than divine design.

And sadness, of course.

The actress Vicky Krieps. WORLD

What do you think of that constant buzz surrounding you for awards season?

Can you see yourself with the Oscar? Did you see the movie? Of course. Well, I think the question is answered there. I don't understand.

Do I have to deduce that the rumor is fair? No, the other way around.

A movie like this is not made by someone aware of that kind of rumors. I don't understand. I understand

as a personal act of liberation, of rebellion.

I play a character who is not likeable.

He is not there to please, rather he is a real and complex human being.

She is a woman who does not try to please, but the fact of pleasing others becomes a disease for her.

The Empress lives trapped in what for a long time has defined a woman, any woman: you have to be beautiful, nice, kind to others... you can't make a fuss so as not to be branded as hysterical... However, You have chosen a job that basically consists of pleasing... Yes, and that has always caused me problems.

Why do you always have to be seducing the public?

That's why I say that this experience was liberating, because my character does the exact opposite of what he's supposed to do.Does he regret having succeeded?

What I am most grateful for is that I have been recognized for difficult jobs that were not originally intended to be praised.

I mean, I'm glad to see that the audience isn't stupid, that they can understand complex things, and that they're willing to go through an awkward moment. How did you feel in a corset? I had to try hard not to hate the director and the movie.

It was very, very painful.

I also had a hard time learning aristocratic body language.

I had to learn to ride a horse and practice fencing... In general, you can only really misbehave, which is what I do, if you first learn how to do it correctly. In the film, she gives life to an icon world: the perfect princess.

What relationship does it have with princesses? My parents were something like hippies and my mother was always an emancipated woman.

Let's just say I grew up with short hair and never had any plans to become a princess.

My neighbor, on the other hand, was the opposite.

She watched Sissi's movies with Romy Schneider every Christmas.

That to me was like the forbidden fruit.

Already somewhat older, I was intrigued by her figure and I began to feel what was behind so much brightness.

I didn't quite understand what it was, but it was something mysterious, melancholic, sad, strange, dark... The pressure to be perfect at all times is quite similar to what every woman suffers when faced with the demand of being a Disney princess. that we are, what is your opinion of the monarchy? I had never thought so much about it as now.

I imagine that in a world where religion doesn't play the role it did in the past, the monarchy can play a similar role perhaps.

I think about what happens in the UK.

Royalty is like an immutable reference.

It's a very simple and easy consolation, but it's consolation nonetheless. He spoke before about the suffering of his character comparable to that of all women today... There is something that remains the same, despite the obvious differences.

I couldn't say whose fault it is or how we got here, but, in a certain sense, many women feel their bodies are like a cage at some point.

The woman's body becomes an object of desire and possession for the man.

And when a pregnancy comes, the body becomes the property of the child.

And when you give birth, you have to work to return the body to its previous state.

And then the body is a cage again, but worse because it has changed and you don't like it, but you have to live with it.

A woman is constantly defined by her body. What role has the figure of your grandfather played in your life [Robert Krieps was president of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party and promoter of the abolition of the death penalty]? Very important.

I have inherited my interest in history from him and, in a way, I think I make films because of him too.

Each character is an invitation to find out more about us, why we love, why we hate... I keep some of his hunger to change the world in my genes.

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