Always fabulous Daniel Day-Lewis portrays perfectly a successful arrogant fussy short-tempered methodical obsessive authoritarian and intolerant haute couture dressmaker, who is often ambiguous about praising or criticizing. Vicky Krieps also shines in a very delicate and precise performance in the role of the unsecure enamored former waitress who admires him and always expects something from him that never comes. Paul Thomas Anderson's competent direction appears not only in their remarkable performances but also in every element that contribute for the recurring atmosphere of tension, oddity, discomfort, imminent disruption in their dysfunctional relationship. It is a movie to slowly feel beyond watching. Will that bizarre relationship have a happy end? Well, how much what is happiness may vary deppending on whom it is applied to?