Award Winner, Jean-Marc Vallée Vanguard Award for Best International Film
Director Marie Kreutzer to accept the award and introduce the film
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. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman and starts trying to maintain her public image, once idolized for her beauty.
Winner, Vicky Krieps, Best Performance
Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival
Official Oscar Submission, Best International Feature, Austria