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‘Corsage’ review: Vicky Krieps excels as an Austrian empress throwing away caution, pomp and circumstance

Vicky Krieps as Empress Elisabeth of Austria in“ Corsage.”.

We’ll be dealing with dramatizations of the lives of royals forever, if only because the public/private schism of They Who Wear The Crowns and those who live in their vicinity is so temptingly easy to map out on paper. All that circumstantial pomp, all those game-day faces and manners, colliding with so much backstage intrigue, away from

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