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.

If you enjoyed There Will Be Blood, Inherent Vice, or Boogie Nights, you will like Phantom Thread. There are so many connections between these four movies that it isn't surprising they share a lot of common characteristics - long takes; soft, natural lighting; an emphasis on indoor scenes; and camera studies of characters' faces. These are all signs of movies from Paul Thomas Anderson who wrote and directed all four of these films. Not surprisingly, this isn't his first nomination, having received writing and/or directing nominations for all four of these films as well as Magnolia.And he frequently brings his own team together for these films. Composer Jonny Greenwood, who received a nomination for the excellent original music in Phantom Thread, also composed the music for There Will Be Blood and Inherent Vice. Mark Bridges, who won the costume award for this movie, also did the costumes for all three of Anderson's other big movies as well as winning the Costume Design Oscar for The Artist in 2012. Clearly, this group of film makers have been making this kind of movie together for several decades.And don't forget Daniel Day-Lewis, who was nominated for Leading Actor in this movie. He Won the Oscar for There Will be Blood, and so has a rewarding relationship with Anderson that goes back more than a decade. An accomplished actor, Day-Lewis has received Oscar nominations for five other movies, and won the acting Oscar for Lincoln, and My Left Foot. Casting him as Reynolds Woodcock in this movie was a perfect choice as Day-Lewis has a great knack for playing powerful men, who retain tragic flaws. Day-Lewis has the uncanny ability to project both strength and cautious vulnerability which gives his characters just the right amount of empathy.In Phantom Thread, Day-Lewis had the good fortune to play off of two powerful supporting performances. Newcomer Vicky Krieps plays his muse and love interest. I can't say I've seen her in any previous movies, but I suspect we will be rewarded in future movies. She has a wonderful ability to project emotion with her face and can exhibit joy and sadness with inflections in her eyes. In tense, emotion-laden scenes with Day-Lewis, she can hold her own. I'm kind of surprised she didn't receive her own nomination.Probably, though, the studio wisely reserved the supporting actress nod for Lesley Manville who did a terrific turn as Woodcock's sister and business partner. Although this is her first Oscar nomination, she is an accomplished actress on stage and British television. She has a terrific scene with Alma, Krieps' character, early in the movie where she actually smells her almost like she's a bouquet of flowers. The scene establishes not just her uncanny and sophisticated sensibilities, but also expresses her powerful position as Woodcock's second-in-command. She has several other turns of equal ability.Jonny Greenwood's original score dominates the movie and seems nearly perfect. It is difficult to pin down exactly what year the movie is supposed to take place, although there are clues that suggest sometime in the mid-50s. Greenwood's music takes a lot of themes from 50s big band music, classical music, and 50s movie backgrounds. After working with Thomas for two decades, he has managed to understand his message and here he creates music that helps maintain the tensions between all three personalities.Although I haven't done the comparisons with the other nominees yet, I'm kind of surprised that this movie won the Costume Design Award. Perhaps it is because the movie is about a dress designer, so the costume guild rewarded the movie more because it was about one of their own. Of course, the dresses he designs for Alma and the British royalty who use his services are beautiful, I don't know that they are exceptionally so. But it is definitely true that he makes Alma look stunning several times over. So maybe the award is deserved. (I must admit that costumes and makeup are two awards where I don't feel much competence in judging!)Ultimately, though, this is Anderson's movie, and its successes, and failures, fall on him!. As the writer and director, the movie is his brainchild from conception to delivery. The movie definitely has some good points. It is a powerful personality study that delves into one particular man with a curious combination of strengths and weaknesses. He does a great job in developing Woodcock's character, and, although we may not fully like him, we do gain a sufficient understanding that we can respect him. His use of the two women, his sister and his muse and lover, to more fully explore his complexities is commendable.But in the end, and especially at the end of the movie, I don't think it works as well as it might have. Without giving away some critical plot points, there is a climactic development between Alma and Reynolds that just isn't consistent. We know that Reynolds discovers something important about Alma, but the film doesn't tell us how he got there - the development of the plot point almost seems like a scene or two is missing. And yet it is exactly this development that determines the final outcome of the couple's relationship, and the denouement of the movie plot. As a result, I felt bewildered and uncomfortable - Anderson just sort of abandoned me out in the ozone somewhere. It is a difficult scene and I think both Day-Lewis and Krieps had hard times understanding it themselves, and yet it is perhaps the most important scene in the movie.But it might be the case that this was just me. Out of the 27 movies nominated for this year's general Oscars awards, Phantom Thread received the highest IMDB audience rating and the fifth highest critics metascore. The audience reaction, in particular, surprises me as this is not, generally, the kind of movie that kindles positive audience reactions. It is a beautiful movie to watch, but can be slow at times, focusing on personalities, not actions. Couple that with, what for me was an unsatisfying ending, and you get a curious set of ratings. (Nice to occasionally have things that remain unexplained.)

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.

I just want to say that is the worst movie I ever saw