Here at Out of Dave’s Head we have unequivocal love for all things Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day Lewis, so you can easily imagine we might be rather excited at the release of the trailer for Phantom Thread, their latest collaboration.

The trailer looks rather lovely (as does the just released poster, above), so luxuriate in this before we say more:

We also have an official synopsis for the film:

Set in the glamour of 1950’s post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the center of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutants and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock’s life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma (Vicky Krieps), who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once controlled and planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by love.

This is Anderson’s eighth movie and his second with Day Lewis (after There Will Be Blood), who threatens that this will be his final movie before retiring from acting. If that, sadly, turns out to be true we can only hope this will see the mercurial actor go out on a high.

Perfect Thread promises to be the perfect Christmas present by opening on December 25th, 2017.