--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ditzyklanmail <carc...@...> wrote:
> Dear Turq, Upcoming work? in china? your below link from IMDB. Must be someone willing to finance? [:-?] Lynch's Lady Blue is, fashion film, the third film in the "Lady Dior" series of film noir mini-features, as usually oblique, enigmatic, weird crammed with Lynchian leitmotifs flashing lights, flashbacks and a haunting soundtrack. It launches on the Dior website this weekend-plot/topic ( Moira Benigson, managing partner of the MBS Group, ) on demand, * to show the handbag, * the Pearl Tower and * some old Shanghai and falls IMHO between a regular film and a commercial. watch: http://www.ladydior.com/ Those who log on will see French actress Marion Cotillard, who has starred in all the Dior films, tiptoeing along a deserted corridor in a deserted Shanghai hotel. As for the actors, cue a natural segue from still adverts and acting as opposed to modeling. Music is blaring from her room. She opens the door, terror etched across her face, to find a bag (yes, it's the Lady Dior!) blue, square, on a pedestal, a light beaming behind it. Two security guards arrive to investigate and, as Cotillard describes the scene, she slips into a dream-like state. The bag has triggered the memory of febrile kisses exchanged between her and a Chinese paramour in front of Shanghai's Pearl Tower, and of his hurried escape, handing her a blue rose as he flees. She awakens, a tear trickling down her powdered cheek. She inches towards the bag, opens the clasp, looks inside and finds the blue rose. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Blue_Shanghai The commercial aspect of the film has been may be diluted (the word Dior is notably absent), but this may enhance the brand's artistic credibility, merging and blurring of what is art, what is film, and may confuse some.(!) But what better way to expose a brand's sensitive, intellectual, artsy side? "Savour"! appreciate the art! (and then buy the perfume) TM artsy will coming, soon, you bet. Pearl Tower was inspired by a poem by Bai Juyi about " pearls falling on jade, two dragons playing with pearls falling from the sky over a plate of jade." http://en.wikiarquitectura.com/index.php?title=Eastern_Pearl_Tower and the sound of a Pipa. pipa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCXzOsKn3Po&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZT5-W_vPFY&feature=related (*Part one "Lady Noire", directed by Olivier Dahan (La Vie en Rose).Part two appeared in January: Lady Rouge, directed by music video and film director Jonas Akerlund) BTW Chanel has also lured a roll-call of directorial greats to create its own fragrance advert trilogy: Baz Luhrmann, Jean-Pierre Jeunet (of Amélie) and Martin Scorsese !!. Lynch may be known for edgy, unorthodox films such as "Mulholland Drive" and "Blue Velvet" but he seems to have explored a lot, for the past few years, a sideline in fashion films. He has worked with Gucci, (Gucci By Gucci (David Lynch) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2QFZ-Njmjo&feature=related) Calvin Klein and Yves Saint Laurent on the filming of the Gucci, Obsession and Opium fragrance adverts respectively, as well as with shoemaker Christian Louboutin on a photographic exhibition about fetishistic shoes. see also obsession by Calvin Klein Ad 2 - David Lynch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vagl2g3BB7Q David Lynch's opium commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nni-CGgHlZE&feature=related David Lynch Playstation Commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msMehuZo3x8&feature=related David Lynch's pregnancy test commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcUaVHi9Qgg&feature=related David Lynch ps2 commercial - blind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-i__nfVdGI&NR=1 and other D.L.'s commercial at youtube intesting to compare Baz Luhrmann for Chanel No 5 (2004) Nicole Kidman's Chanel No. 5 "Chanel works with movie directors because they bring depth, emotion and what we call in French, `a supplement of soul,'â" says Andrew d'Avack, president of Chanel fragrance and beauty. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C525FnMFSBI&feature=related making of chanel no.5 nicole kidman - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaSsLH3B8ng THE LADY NOIR AFFAIR / BY LADY DIOR / CHAPTER ONE / DIRECTED BY OLIVIER DAHAN FEAT. MARION COTILLARD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL5Nnay5sKY Dior's cinematographic fashion campaign for the Lady Dior Handbag. Art direction by John Galliano, directed by Jonas Akerlund, starring by Marion Cotillard singing "The Eyes Of Mars" with Franz Ferdinand. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj2yzpbWquA&feature=related Have a good time watching and forget the rational side in You! "Washing your eyes" xÇâ yÇnâ jingâ as the Chinese saying goes