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Movie Reviews of Ready to Wear
Movie Review: 2and half stars are you KIDDING?? BEAUTIFUL, FUNNY, GLAMOROUS MOVIE W/SOPHIA LOREN AND KIM BASINGER + LOTSA SUPERMODELS
Summary: 5 Stars
Ok, Why would anyone even watch a movie about a murder taking place in a FASHION SHOW IN PARIS if they consider glamour and beauty not to be a point in and of itself.
Aside from visual feasts the movie depicts this lifestyle in a honest way, kinda like how Office Space depicts the office life. One scene is when these two ladies who are staying next to each other talk to each other politely as they walk each other to their hotel rooms. When they arrive at their doors they bid their farewells and then one goes to the left and the other to the right, and as they both turn the doorknobs they both discover that the doors are locked. AWKWARD! well the awkwardness is depicted beautifully as they both utter polite laughts he he... if you are incapable of appreciating that then you're right, you might be too shallow to enjoy this movie! If you can get into the depths of things that appear 'not to matter' and at the same time consider beauty and glamour a point in and of itself (it sounds contradictory but it isn't) then you will LOVE THIS! Here are more reasons to get this movie:
-Kim Basinger has a pretty big role as this innocent reporter "live in Paris" and is stunning and funny
-Sophia Loren who I've never thought to be all THAT is in this and has a fair share of camera time, and BOY did I just change my mind! It seems she is gorgeous now that she's old but I never really saw it when she was young. Kim Basinger admires her jewelry :-).
-Cameo by Cher (she gets interviewed)
-Jean Paul Gaultier is in it (he gets interviewed)
-There are scenes of Paris shopping in it
-There is are cute dogs (although in the first scene, S. Loren shakes her dog a little but I'll just think she makes up for it)
-I could go on and on!!! If you are attracted to the title in the first place, WHY WOULDN'T you like this movie?? O! Just thought of something:
-HELENA CHRISTIANSON is in it and she has a line, Christy Turlington is in it, more...!!!
Movie Review: "Nashville" on the other side of the Atlantic
Summary: 5 Stars
Nashville and this movie (Pret a Porter, in itself something of a pun) are my two favorite Altman movies. Both feature a large cast of characters, no plot worth mentioning, curious "now you see me, now you don't" characters (here the amazing character played by Marcello Mastroianni), dazzling costumes (a bit higher-class in this movie than in the home of the Grand Ole Opry, obviously ;-), constant cuts back and forth between various (mostly unconnected) threads, all at an easy pace and with tongue firmly in cheek. It is visually alluring while poking gentle fun at everything that comes within its scope, from the omnipresent dog poop on Parisian sidewalks to grand hotels, journalists, editors, purchasers, and, of course, fashion designers. Sophia Loren shows that one of the most beautiful women in the world can remain gorgeous long past the time most of us have stopped looking in the mirror; Julia Roberts, arriving in a wine stained "greatest mom" T-shirt, gives a superb performance as a classy alcoholic; Marcello Mastroianni looks suitably sinister, worried, sweet, and down-home in turn, lurking around every corner and wielding a mean handheld sewing machine ;-), and Kim Basinger is the TV anchor we all love to hate, but with a difference... Many other stars put in appearances, including a number of models and designers starring as themselves.
No, it's not really deep -- but who thought that Nashville was deep and why should every movie be deep? It is a whirlwind of impressions, colors, fashions, and people, all lovingly mixed for your entertainment. Pure Altman and a great movie!
Movie Review: A wonderful evocation of Parisian fashionistas
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of my favourite films.Many of the critics of this movie missed the point. This movie is not about plot or characters. Robert Altman does what movies are for; he takes us to another place.
What Altman does is give us a vivid impression of the incestuous whirl of the fashion world. His world is populated by both real designers (as ever spotting them is half the fun). and wonderful performances such as Richard E. Grant as a male Vivienne Westwood.
The movie also effectively transports us to Paris. And yes, Paris really is covered in "Dog Poop" (they were Paris jokes, not Poop jokes).
I think that many of the jokes about Paris, may have gone over the heads of US movie critics who have not set foot outside LA and New York.
One of the reviews of this movie described the fashion shows as "pointless". They were pointless in the same way a Monet is pointless; they were in the movie because they are beautiful.
To summarise, if you love Paris and you love fashion, you will love this. The closing credits of a montage of Issey Miyake and other fashion shows set to Grace Jones' "La Vie En Rose" is worth the price of admission alone.
Movie Review: altman at his most loveable
Summary: 5 Stars
there's very little NOT to like about this classic altman-poke at paris fashionistas. i haven't seen this movie in years but i remember when it came out i had already developed a liking for altman's work and this really sealed the deal.
it is hip fast, cheeky, sly, and yet, never mean!!.....there's a whole roster of wonks and you end up loving them all for all their frailty, pompous-egotism, delusion, and angst-driven antics. it is the fabric within the fabric that makes us laugh>
and makes me want to see it again almost 15 years later.
Movie Review: Classic Sophia
Summary: 5 Stars
The Master Robert Altman created this piece before Gosford Park but even back then he used his same techniques. It conquers those guilty instincts many of us have to know what is going on in peoples lives. Among a cast of actors like Sophia Loren, Julia Roberts, Rupert Evert, there the real stars of the Paris Fashion scene Terry Mueller, Jon Paul Gautie, La Criox, Vivian Westwood,and the Press. Sit back and watch it all unfold.