IFC Films has set the U.S. release date for “Corsage,” whose star Vicky Krieps won the best performance prize in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival. Marie Kreutzer’s film will have its North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, and the New York Film Festival has just announced that the film will screen there too. IFC Films will then release it in U.S. theaters on Dec. 23.
The film received rave reviews at Cannes, with The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw writing that Krieps gives “an exhilaratingly fierce, uningratiating performance,” and Variety‘s Jessica Kiang describing the “brilliant” film as “a witty subversion of biopic and costume-drama clichés.” “Corsage” is likely to be selected as Austria’s entry for the Academy Award for Best International Film, and Krieps may even have a shot at the best actress Oscar.
