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- 2017
- R
- 2 h 10 m
- 2017
- R
- 2 h 10 m
Summary Set in the glamour of 1950s post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the center of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutantes and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock’...
Directed By: Paul Thomas Anderson
Written By: Paul Thomas Anderson
- 2017
- R
- 2 h 10 m
- 2017
- R
- 2 h 10 m
Phantom Thread
7.7
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Summary Set in the glamour of 1950s post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the center of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutantes and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock’...
Directed By: Paul Thomas Anderson
Written By: Paul Thomas Anderson
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 51 Critic Reviews
90
96% Positive
49 Reviews
49 Reviews
4% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 51 Critic Reviews
90
96% Positive
49 Reviews
49 Reviews
4% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Anderson crafts another classic of obsession and strange love, played by dynamite leads: Day-Lewis retires in style, Krieps is revelatory.
Most tales of people finding love present hard, angular worlds and allow romance to soften the edges. Phantom Thread does the opposite: It presents a soft, even sensuous world, and shows us how sometimes love can come in the cuts and the tears.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 559 User Ratings
7.7
82% Positive
459 Ratings
459 Ratings
9% Mixed
48 Ratings
48 Ratings
9% Negative
52 Ratings
52 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 559 User Ratings
7.7
82% Positive
459 Ratings
459 Ratings
9% Mixed
48 Ratings
48 Ratings
9% Negative
52 Ratings
52 Ratings
Can't imagine a better version to this film. Beautiful to look at, beautiful to listen to, beautiful message about love's truth. My favorite film.
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This gorgeous love melodrama is full of visual beauty and thrilling to the point that it looks like a tribute to Ophuls and Hitchock. It is set in the 1950s but the cinematography and editing make the film look like it was also shot in the 1950s. Paul Thomas Anderson approaches the levels of "there will bee blood" once again bordering on perfection. Beware of mushroom omelettes.
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[Anderson's] unobtrusive aesthetic, calibrated to highlight his actors and, of course, the fashion, belies its deceptive luxuriousness. This is a movie you’ll want to live in for the pure joy of reveling in Anderson’s effortless mastery.
This is less an examination of a singular person than a look at the torturous and sublime experience of his creative process as it relates to the most important people in his life.
If Phantom Thread isn’t exactly a narrative triumph, it still manages to deliver, especially as a haunting evocation of avidity, appetite and aesthetic pursuit at its most rarefied.
Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas Anderson’s follow-up to 2014’s Inherent Vice, feels a little like a mash-up of Bergman and Hitchcock without the verve of the latter and the subtleties of the former.
There’s no doubt Phantom Thread will be forever lauded as a great fashion movie, but I don’t think it’s even a good one. Its view of how fashion is made feels desiccated and airless, as if beautiful clothes can come into being only under a dome of oppression and anxiety.
I definitely don't recommend this movie if you're a dumb person (you know who you are). Just trust me on this, if you're dumb (again, no judgement), you're not going to enjoy this movie. You will simply walk away using words like "boring", "pretentious" or "postmodern trash" (assuming those words exist within your vocabulary). For you, this will just be uppity spoiled rich people interacting for two hours in an ostensibly juvenile relationship, and it will not fulfill your need for a neatly told hero's journey that reinforces your pre-existing notions about your identity.
Like PTA's other recent films, it's basically just a power struggle between two psychopaths, who themselves are embodiments of abstract forces. If you still struggle between understanding the difference between literal and figurative interpretation of art, probably steer clear.
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A story of a high fashion dress designer and a model he was looking for.
The latest film by Paul Thomas Anderson (aka PTA), film director famous for "Magnolia", "There Will Be Blood", and many others.
There is beautiful scenery here (not much of it though), gorgeous dresses, outstanding performance from leads, great casting, meticulous details.
On the other hand, dragging, slow, boring plot. It is not unusual for Anderson to dive into psychics of obsessive, troubled psychopaths but this movie left me cold as stone. Too many threads are left untied.
The film pretends to be artsy but rather weird. A weird film about weird people. If it is a love story, that love has to be taken into quotes.
I would give this film many technical Oscar nominations but definitely not the best feature.
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This movie feels more like a play than a film; Pinter-like with lots of ominous undertones i.e., fashion designer Reynolds being told by sister Cyril not to pick a fight with her because she will annihilate him !! The story gradually looses its way and by the time we get to the final denouement with its twist on “the-way-a-man’s-heart-is-through-his-stomach” you get the feeling that director Anderson has been playing a bit of a practical joke on us. Let’s hope Alma’s cooking tips don’t catch on with any disenchanted housewives in the audience !
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I was initially engaged and hopeful that this was going to be a good film, especially because Daniel Day Lewis was featured and the sets, landscapes and costumes were magnificent. But the film just loses tempo and breaks down due to its uninspired meandering and an utterly bizarre left turn 3/4 of the way in, which essentially yanked the film out of the genre it was in and placed it, unbelievably, in **** if the writers just ran out of ideas as to how to conclude and just grasped at something as the clock was ticking towards a deadline.
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Production Company
Focus Features,
Annapurna Pictures,
Perfect World Pictures,
JoAnne Sellar Productions,
Ghoulardi Film Company
Release Date Dec 25, 2017
Duration 2 h 10 m
Rating R
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 6 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Nominations
International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA)
• 3 Wins & 9 Nominations
