Corsage

It is Christmas 1877 when the Austrian Empress Elisabeth (Vicky Krieps), known for her beauty, turns 40. As First Lady of Austria and wife of Emperor Franz Joseph I (Florian Teichtmeister), she is not allowed to express herself and must remain the beautiful young empress forever. In order to fulfil these expectations, she subjects herself to a strict regime of fasting, exercises, hairstyles and the daily measurement of her height. Stifled by these conventions, hungry for knowledge and life, Elisabeth rebels more and more against this image. Officially, she is now considered an old woman, and she wonders what she is still worth if she can no longer live up to her own image?