TRR worships at the altar of David Lynch so it's not often we get excited by fashion films as much as the new sixteen minute Dior epic, Lady Blue Shanghai starring Marion Cotillard. Utterly Lynchian from start-to-finish, all his regular motifs are there; the groaning ambient music, foreboding sense of disqiuet, trippy dreamscape sequences, the ambiguous era and anxious camerawork.

The premise is thus, upon returning to her hotel, Cotillard discovers someone has deposited a smoking Dior bag in the middle of the floor, freaks the hell out and calls security. It dawns on her a mysterious visit to the Pearl Tower may have something to do with it. Cue flashback to a room in Old Shanghai where she makes out with a guy and then leg it to a rooftop to profess their undying love for one another. He vanishes leaving her with a blue rose, which lo-and-behold, reappears inside the bag later.

Firstly, I'm sure if we returned to find a Dior bag lying mysteriously in the middle of our hotel room floor (smoking or otherwise) the last thing we'd do is call security, moreover, chuck it our luggage and quickly hot foot it out the door. Anyway, it's all really rather beautiful as you would expect, Cotillard smoulders as our perturbed heroine. This is her third outing in a Dior film, and Lynch's second foray into fashion advertising.
 

Posted on May 17, 2010 at 9:56:55 by The Real Runway