Corsage

No pain, no reign.

A melancholic, introspective portrait of an aging empress grappling with vanity, mortality, and the cruelty of time's passage on a woman once defined by beauty.

A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman; she starts trying to maintain her public image.