Phantom Thread
2017
****½
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Vicky Krieps, Lesley Manville, Camilla Rutherford, Gina McKee, George Glasgow, Brian Gleeson, Harriet Sansom Harris
Reynolds Woodcock is an esteemed fashion designer with a highly controlling personality. He meets young Alma Elson, a young woman who becomes his assistant, muse, and lover. Paul Thomas Anderson's latest period film is set in London in the 1950s. It is a beautifully staged and subtly acted Hitchcockian drama about an unusual and intense relationship between two obsessive people. Daniel Day-Lewis is wonderful in (possibly) his last screen performance. Mark Bridges won an Academy Award winner for his costume design.
