I really like the actress Vicky Krieps where did they find her? Her face was sometimes pretty and sometimes evil. I did not understand the ending did he know he had been poisoned ? An unusual role for Day Lewis but as always he was very good. There Will be Blood was a very good film and his character in that film was faultless. I am glad I saw it.

The woman (cold, calculating and ambitious) basically cows the man (arrogant and self-centred celebrity) into submission by judicious use of poison, with the complicity of his sister, presumably because by this time she'd also had enough of his narcissistic temperament. That either party can actually use the term love is frankly perverse, since they are both using one another to fulfill their own ends (while the essence of love is putting somebody else's interests before one's own). Perhaps the sister Cyril (a superb portrayal) feels that they are both good for one another, looking at the bigger picture and perhaps not aware that the severe boughts of illness are deliberately provoked, so perhaps she is motivated by love. Although I find the story repellent, the acting is excellent, which hauls the rating up to a 4.

Daniel Day-Lewis at his very very best. Proving once more that he is arguably the finest actor of his generation. As in his performances in There Will Be Blood and Lincoln, every second he is on the screen is a wonder to behold and every sound he utters is believable and real. He will indeed be missed. The support from Vicky Krieps and Lesley Manville work perfectly. The script, costumes, sets, lighting and cinematography are faultless. But what lets this film down is the score which although at times is sublime, is at others, intrusive. Someone should have told Jonny Greenwood that sometimes, 'Less Is More'. Given their collaboration on so many projects previously it sounds as if that person is not Paul Thomas Anderson. If only Malcolm Arnold were still alive and composing.

PHANTOM THREAD just annihilated me. It's completely worthy of all the immense hype (such as, most cinephiles considering it the best film of 2017). It grows and builds in as organic a manner that a film possibly can. At first, I wasn't sure how I felt - I needed to get to know the characters, then, through most of the movie, I was cracking up at all the tension and the misery between them, then, by the last 10 minutes, I was in tears - a flow of tears which increased each minute as I processed the power and uniqueness and realness of what I had just witnessed. They were "profound" tears. I don't know that I've ever seen a movie that so tastefully glamorizes the toxicity of love. The poison that so many of us romanticize, the poison that we NEED in our lives. There are two types of people in the world: people who feel at home in perfectly "healthy" relationships, and then there's the rest of us. This film is for the rest of us. It stands in a league of it's own. I could never have expected the conclusion - the way that the ribbon is tied, the way the final thread is sewn. It hit me like a bag of bricks. It is all of the pain in love and all of the beauty, all at once. I have never seen this story told before. It's completely original, and completely shattering. The three leads are absolutely astonishing - Daniel Day Lewis and Lesley Manville are terrifying - Vicky Krieps is the most real. The writing and directing is impeccable - P.T. Anderson's legacy continues, it's fire burning brighter than ever. Yes, this is a masterpiece. I am dead.