Film
Phantom Thread
- Director
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 130 mins
The great Paul Thomas Anderson reunites with his There Will Be Blood star Daniel Day-Lewis for the latter’s alleged final screen performance.
Weirdness abounds in this idiosyncratic, meticulously crafted Hitchcockian romantic melodrama set in London’s 1950s fashion world, where the self-absorbed and self-important, fabulously named Reynolds Woodcock (Day-Lewis) is the undisputed king of couture. His secretive life is protected by his sister and gatekeeper, Cyril (Lesley Manville), who helps to ensure that adoring womenfolk are kept at arm’s length. Until, that is, he meets and falls for a seaside hotel waitress named Alma – yep, the same name as Hitch’s missus – played by Vicky Krieps, who disrupts his carefully organised life. Go here for our full review.
It’s back on screen to conclude the Watershed’s Sunday brunch OK Composer: The Scores of Jonny Greenwood and Thom Yorke season, which forms part of Filmic ’19.
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