The disjointed Alice in Wonderland -meets- Cinderella excursion of titular covergirl Polly Maggoo estimably portrayed by fearless American model Dorothy McGowan bounces wildly from an elaborate haute couture runway show, to trailing the raven-haired fashion plate through the bustling…. Though I'd long admired William Klein's old work for Vogue and above all his candid street photography collected by the Museum of Modern Art, I only somewhat recently learned that the eminent lensman who is still with us at ninety-two years young took up filmmaking in the s as an American expatriate living in France.
Still the most critical…. Design is about making useful things look interesting, whereas art is about making interesting looking things that are useless. The opening scenes of this film invites us to a fashion show where the models are dressed in extremely uncomfortable contraptions made of sheet metal.
This makes it clear that the world of haute-couture resides firmly within the realm of the latter. In fact, these items of clothing are almost downright hostile to the models as the aluminium cuts into their exposed and vulnerable flesh much to the indifference of everyone else involved. This question of form vs. The difference between the two underscores a disconnect in society between the classes.
Clothing of…. Review by Sally Jane Black 3. This one put me in mind of Daisies in its pure anarchic fervor. It doesn't stop--it is a relentless film, and it uses editing and unconventional narratives to infuse the mostly negative look at the fashion industry with some fun. Combining a fairytale story with an almost documentary-style look at a fashion model's weathering of intense media and public attention, it's somewhat sympathetic to the model at the heart of it all while generally aiming to puncture the ridiculous pretensions of mainstays of the fashion industry.
I also reviewed this on Cinema Eclectica , and I think you can hear me struggle a bit with putting my feelings into words. I think it's because William Klein's film reviews itself so brilliantly; an essay on the media, the construction of celebrity images, the male gaze and how your cinema sausage gets made that rips itself apart only to find another layer hiding beneath.
It's like he's playing a game of narrative pass-the-parcel with no other players. Early in the film, model phenom Polly Maggoo says something like "Every picture takes a piece of me away. She's a child, a princess, and a prop. In all of these realms we're surrounded by her image, her pieces, on the wall or on an ominous TV screen at the head of a dinner table.
Polly's plight seems to motivate the movie and actually determine its form. I was surprised by how visually dynamic it was. There are playful special effects and even animation, but the overall look of the film is really sharp. The opening sequence is especially dazzling. Klein seems to be taking a…. The Cinderella story has never been one of my favorites. Part of that is probably because it's overdone, but also because I find it to be one of the less interesting fairy tales.
I think that could be thanks to how it is seen culturally, as the 50s Disney movie. That Cinderella as a character actually does have quite a bit of personality and sass, but ultimately she is the beautiful object the story revolves around. She is told to do things by the other characters. As William Klein explores, that reflects modeling just as well.
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