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The new york film festival has shone a light on a fine european arthouse cinema, and this year it was a turn of austria to share in that light, with a film called corsage, as emma jones reports. choir sings. a constricted 19th—century royal life proves too much for elizabeth, was sisi, the empress of austria, the protagonist of corsage. luxembourgish actor vicky krieps portrays her as a ao—year—old woman who wanted out of her gilded cage. krieps and director, marie kreutzer, were looking for a new project together but kreutzer was reluctant

To choose sisi's story until she read a biography of the empress. i thought, maybe there will be something in the material that resonates with me and makes me want to tell a story about her. and the point where realised that that was or could have been her struggle — the struggle against a system and against a lot of men telling her what to do — and that was of course very much something that resonated with me, and also as a woman in a very different but exposed position as a director. i am very often the boss of a lot of people and also of a lot of men, so that kind of touched me very dee...

The first sisi was seen by around 25 million people in cinemas. a key horse rider, gymnast and a scientist, she's also proving a fascinating heroine for now when tv series are looking for inspiring women of the past. sisi has been the recent subject of five productions, including corsage. there's also been a lavish european tv production called sisi. and now a netflix series, the empress. she's planning a life of me that i don't want. they start by showing a youthful, spirited royal. en empress who is a shimmering light. an empress who is a shimmering light. however, corsage starts on the empr...

<strong>April 19 to April 25</strong> Taipei’s Dalongdong Baoan Temple (大龍峒保安宮) was in a sorry state following the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) retreat to Taiwan in 1949. About 200 refugees and military dependents had taken over the 119-year-old structure and set up camp in makeshift dwellings. When writer Wu Chao-lun (吳朝綸) moved to Dalongdong in 1950, he saw “little incense burning; it was extremely crowded … and there was barely any space to sit. They washed their clothes with dirty water and hung them up still dripping. This is not only blasphemou...