Isabella

great art direction + great music , what else could you ask more if a movie could satisfy you in both visual and audio and it's not about love, is about paternal love. it touches the bottom of your heart and makes you weep, but not in a HK-TVB-Drama-series kinda way (exaggerating).

awesome HK movies is as scarce as gold nowadays, especially one with awesome music and bold enough to use a 80's song sang by a deceased singer - the irreplaceable Queen of Cantopop - Anita Mui. bravo.

7.5/10

8/10 for its OST

long dresses rock this season

emilio pucci
emilio pucci

emilio pucci

emilio pucci

diane von furstenberg

diane von furstenberg

diane von furstenberg

anna sui

anna sui

anna sui

missoni

missoni

missoni

tracy reese

paul smith

by Zac Posen

by Giorgio Armani - woot ! bohemian is back

I'm loving these - by D&G

Let Them Eat Cake

i luv masquerade party

luv this, the dress kinda blend into the wallpaper, i luv wallpaper

i've been procastinating on watching this movie. in fact i was abit reluctant to watch it initially cause i dun fancy kirsten dunst that much in fact i have this phobia towards her performance, thanks to her role in mary jane and the whole spidey thingy. (sorry if i've offended any fans of hers. heh). back to the topic, so the unwillingness waned after listening to its soundtrack. with sophia coppola's movie, you could pretty rest assured on the quality of its OST.

so my 2cents on this is : not very impressive

sophia seems to dwell on marie's personal life by focusing on the fancy, party-animal side of marie rather than the historical side of the whole. she purposely left out something (as in the real meaning behind the line 'let them eat cake' ) and blow up on something else (as in her fancy & unproductive lifestyle)

'let them eat cake' - sophia is trying to portray marie as a cycnical person cause she said it after knowing that the peasantry has no bread to eat. However, it isn't quite as cold a sentiment as you might imagine. At the time, French law required bakers to sell fancy breads at the same low price as the plain breads if they ran out of the latter. The goal was to prevent bakers from making very little cheap bread and then profiting off the fancy, expensive bread. it may have meant that the bakery laws should be enforced so the poor could eat the fancy bread if there wasn't enough plain bread to go around.

it is very much girls' movie, you get to see lotsa pretty and fancy dresses, shoes, jewels, etc.... besides, woman speaks more than man in the movie, her husband is a boring and quiet person, the pretty boy whom she had an affair with hardly speaks, and has little appearence, in fact the pretty boy (jamie dornan) isn't so pretty after the 2nd and 3rd look. to me at least. what is thrilling to me besides seeing pretty boy is the marriage of indie rock + techno + lo-fi to a movie based in the era of the 18th century, especially the scene when The Strokes's What Ever Happened was played, it has transformed The Strokes's music to a different level. definitely a feast to your eyes and ears simultaneouly. not only that, the pastry that was served to marie was bloody awesome (see picture above), at least from the way it looks, i was drooling over all of it, especially those tarts and cakes. heaven.

6/10 for the movie

8.5/10 for its OST

i'm really BREATHLESS

i prefer this poster, when they blow upthe last scene where michel collapsed

classic scene & myfav scene
she pulls off the short hair flawlessly

this black&white film is definitely more vivid and interesting than any non-b&w film. the plot, the cast, everything about it is so alive, so encrypted. not to mention the main gal whom has a close-to-perfect features. a few things/scene that leaves an impact in my short&long term memory space

in this particular order and priority

1. last scene, when michel was shot, he limped his way from one end to the other. i dunno why, but this scene says a thousand words to me, there's something more than the visual to me, so to speak. CLASSIC

2. after that he collapsed and died at the end of the street, with patricia chasing him from the back. he uttered some words (my bloody dvd was tripping&jamming ) hence i couldn't depict 100% of it.

3. patricia interviewing the famous writer, the scripts are so witty and funny

4. patricia selling NY herald tribune at the streets

5. patricia wearing a man's shirt

6. patricia in a stripe-dress (wow, typical french chic)

7. her little drawstring-handbag (see picture:second-from-bottom)

this film is part of the french new wave after 400 blows (which has an equally impactful last scene), unique and breakthrough from the typical hollywood style with lotsa jump cuts and hand-held camera innovations. something different, especially in that era.

i'm giving it a 6.5/10. how about you ?