'The rebel empress': Sissi felt lonely and was a junkie

My memory of Empress Sissi was in black and white (memory can be misleading or accommodating, perhaps it was in color) and she was played by a vivacious actress with a luminous smile named Romy Schneider.

The story must have been sweetened, a bit silly, with a strategic happy ending.

The lovely girl was marrying the tall, fair-haired emperor.

They were happily ever after.

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Many years later I fell in love to the bone with the stunning actress and wife Romy Schneider.

When she got older.

She was pure beauty, style, elegance, authenticity.

With traces that her life had hit him very hard, with unforgettable performances in

,

and many others.

One day she exploded.

Her first husband hanged himself.

Her teenage son died a fierce death.

The devastation must have been absolute for the beautiful and torn lady.

She decided to leave.

There is a very tragic point in the last interpretations of her.

My love for her is perpetual.

And they retell me the story of Sissi in

.

Austrian director Marie Kreutzer does it.

With the vocation or the need to portray the harsh truth about the life of the empress consort, unhappily married to the emperor Francisco José.

Now it turns out that she was a total victim of the men who surrounded her, they denied her her freedom, they progressively suffocated her, they did not attend to her reasons or her feelings, they turned her into a misunderstood and tragic outcast.

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And what happens to this desperate woman with an enigmatic and permanent smile?

Well, she's constantly on the move without finding peace, her husband has stopped wanting her, her cousin doesn't have it with her either because he only likes stable boys, she does gymnastics to keep her body threatened by maturity in shape, she discovers the comforting heroin and walks all the time with the syringe in his vein, frequently resorts to masturbation.

In short, she is very lonely and not even God understands her.

And it's all so revolutionary and modern that on the soundtrack there are people singing

, that piece of song that the Rolling Stones invented, and

which immortalized the powerful and exciting voice of Kris Kristofferson.

These original little things were not invented by the director Marie Kreutzer.

Sofía Coppola started it with contemporary music to set the scene for the parties of the guillotined Queen Marie Antoinette.

They report that this film caused admiration and consequent awards at various festivals where it has been shown.

I get it.

Its coherent.

I get a little bored with reviewing the daily misfortunes of that misunderstood and tyrannized lady.

The supposedly artistic style used to tell of her tormented existence strives to create enduring images and to achieve a suitable atmosphere.

But I can't avoid the rude opening of my mouth at times.

Although I admit my relative fascination with the actress who plays Sissi.

Her name is Vicky Krieps.

I think I've seen her before in

.

She possesses mystery and cadence.

And a strange beauty.

It's something.

the rebel empress

Directed by:

Marie Kreutzer.

Cast:

Vicky Krieps, Colin Morgan, Florian Teichtmeister, Aaron Friesz, Finnegan Oldfield, Ivana Urban.

Genre:

drama.

Germany, 2022.

Duration:

113 minutes.

Premiere: December 2.

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