If you’ll remember a couple of weeks back we posted the stunningly nice looking commercial for Chanel No. 5 starring the always lovely Audrey Tautou under the direction of Jean-Pierre Jeunet. While flipping through the fashion pages today, I stumbled across another similar endeavor starring Marion Cotillard and directed by Olivier Dahan (La vie en Rose).
This one is a bit more epic in scope and actually tells a full story; apparently getting fairly harrowing at its climax. Though full disclosure here – I actually haven’t had time to watch the entire thing. But I do get an interesting feel for the mix of noir and that mysterious, “perfume commercial” feel. It’s not totally in black and white yet the color is washed out enough to give it an interesting look. And yet there is a ful opening and closing credit sequence done in a 1930/40′s style. Very cool.
You can check out the entire short below the seats…
I didn’t know you were a follower of fashion Andrew.
I have a few different pages on my RSS readers. Not so much a follower I guess, but they have cool photography and I occasionally come across stories like this one.
So they are definitely going for a VERTIGO vibe here. With a lot of other Hitchcockian referencing….I like the look of the piece a lot. But the awkward pacing would have the Hitch rolling his eyes.
…But Cotillard is a big favourite (see Jeux D’Enfants and her small part in A Very Long Engagement) and she has never looks as sexy-cool as she does here.