Phantom Thread is a 2017 American romantic period drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.

It stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Vicky Krieps, and Lesley Manville, and follows an haute couture dressmaker in 1950s London who takes a young waitress as his muse.

[9][10] At the 90th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director for Anderson, Best Actor for Day-Lewis, Best Supporting Actress for Manville, and Best Original Score for Greenwood; it won for Best Costume Design.

After designing a new gown for a revered client, Lady Harding, Reynolds visits a restaurant near his country house and meets a foreign waitress, Alma Elson.

At first, Alma enjoys being part of Reynolds's work, but he proves aloof, hard to please, and finicky; as a result, they start to bicker.

When Alma tries to show her love for Reynolds by surprising him with a romantic dinner, he lashes out, calling it an "ambush" and questioning her motive.

As he readies a wedding gown for a Belgian princess, Reynolds collapses, damaging the dress and forcing his staff to work all night to repair it.

Cyril tells Reynolds that Lady Harding is now a client at a rival fashion house and suggests that his classic, conservative designs may be going out of style.

As he lies ill again, Alma imagines their future with children, a rich social life, and a bigger role for her in the dressmaking business.

[17] Daniel Day-Lewis, a method actor, spent a year learning dressmaking from Marc Happel in preparation for the role.

[18] Principal photography began in late January 2017 in Lythe, England, United Kingdom,[19][20] with a number of other locations in the North York Moors also featuring, including Robin Hood's Bay and Staithes.

[21] Filming also took place at Owlpen Manor in the Cotswolds[22] and in the London neighbourhood of Fitzrovia, in Fitzroy Square, and in Grafton Mews.

The site's critics consensus reads: "Phantom Thread's finely woven narrative is filled out nicely by humor, intoxicating romantic tension, and yet another impressively committed performance from Daniel Day-Lewis.

Club's A.A. Dowd gave the film an A−, calling it a "charitable and even poignantly hopeful take on the subject [of being in a relationship with an artist]" and writing, "in the simple, refined timelessness of its technique, Phantom Thread is practically a love letter to classic aesthetic values—cinematic, sartorial, or otherwise".