--- 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 a 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 brand
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! [:D]
"Washing your eyes" - Xi YanJing - as the Chinese saying goes
