Review of Phantom Thread (2017) by Fabriziomaffei — 09 Sep 2018

The phantom thread, is one of those films where everything, everything: from photography, to music, costumes, actors (and what actors! Majestic) are in the right place at the right time.

The 1950s are told and photographed and recited as if it were a 1700s costumed film, like a Barry Lyndon in 1900.

But if the representation is deliberately distant, it is topical the theme that the director / writer engaged: the transition from a very hard, despotic patriarchy and the birth of what was then feminism.

The story tells of Reynolds Woodcock (to make the idea an English Donald Draper) stylist, genius, surrounded only by women: loved (in his own way), who work for him (according to his rules) and who considers all expendable. He is the center of the universe and his habits, his delusions must only be indulged without being opposed in any way at risk of being excluded from his circle. Everything moves according to these rules until Alma, her "favorite, lover, concubine, employee" decides that she is not expendable.

This "The phantom thread" is really high cinema and, thanks Anderson.