Phantom Thread [Blu-ray]

brilliant the most beautiful woman I've ever seen

Superb acting and beautifully filmed. The relationship between a self-absorbed, genius couturier brother and his business partner/manager sister verges on unhealthy and a tad weird! She vets her brother's relationships with his models and even manages their departure once they become an irritation to this insular man. They live in a world of clipped elegance and strict routine that should never be disrupted or challenged with the ghost of their mother ever present who has shaped his peculiar personality ......Enter his latest muse...who has more substance and gall than he can manage. Quietly she undoes this man and finds his kink...She replaces his mother. How she does this would be a 'spoiler' but it's strange and disquieting.

What's not to like if Daniel Day Lewis is involved?! Captured the early1950's so well. A strange story with 'undertones' but probably geared to a more selective audience. By no means a blockbuster, but all the better for its originality.

this is a film whose rewards are considerable at the surface level of the exquisite presentation and visual thoroughness that keeps the close, all but pedantic, attention a film about couture very properly demands , and at the profounder level of spiritual/emotional satisfaction and its opposite , the many forms emotional emptiness , even starvation , can take . The acting rewards the very closest attention, as ,stitch by minute stitch , it tells its tale of richness and aridity -and of power . Lesley Manville gives distaste and tailoring virtuosic embodiment . DDL has seldom been more beautiful or alarming and - the angel of surprise and relief is wonderfully brought to life by the newcomer actor with her continually fluctuating face and alluring gaucheness . The house is perfect , ,poised , layered , hierarchical , echoing , fragile , cold , as though from a novel by Elizabeth Bowen , many of whose characters this superb trio of actors might have been born to play . The ugly rich clients offer much the form of relief offered by Louie and her companions in (E Bowen s wartime novel) The Heat of the Day ; they are the rude mechanicals to the main protagonists' high-refined , tense , manipulators-and even the "innocent" come to manipulate, in order to survive in this set-up . Not everyone will not be bored .

This was a beautiful, cinematic film. Striking, moody colours and costumes, melancholic music - a kind of poetry, a work of art.The only thing I disliked was that there seemed to be a distance between the viewer and characters; we never really get to 'know' them, to sympathize with them, to see their point of view. The story was rather slow - I don't mind that at all - but character development and backstories felt stifled and thus I found it difficult to relate to either of the main characters.

Great acting, gorgeous outfits

as always Lewis is brilliant and Vicky Koieps is awesome as well. It's well written and has really complex characters. Theirs so many iconic scenes and it's a powerful film

Dreary, claustrophobic and boring.