Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day-Lewis Weave a Dark, Spellbinding Love Story in Phantom Thread

Phantom Thread is about style as a constraint, and a means of consecrating one's misery. But it's also funny.by Sean Nelson"Genius," wrote Baudelaire, "is no more than childhood recaptured at will." This was 168 years ago, before the popular conception of artistic genius could evolve into what it became by the middle of the 20th century: a condition midway between affliction and gift, by dint of which all human (and especially male) lapses—petulance, selfishness, social maladaptation, abus