Sisi has the privilege and curse of knowing she can get away with anything, that nothing she does is unforgivable. In psychological terms, that dynamic is promising, but the movie gives it no dramatic context.

Where “Corsage” was cheeky, playfully dark and came with a dose of heart-tugging mischief, “Sisi & I” feels tame and square by comparison.

Consistently gets by on the eye-candy delights of Thomas W. Kiennast’s velvety, tactile 16mm lensing and scrumptious, magazine-ready design contributions.

The director, who wrote the screenplay with her husband, Swiss author Christian Kracht, avoids period music in favor of 20th-century tracks from female-led acts, like Nico and Portishead, aligning it with Sofia Coppola's anachronistic Marie Antoinette...