Directed by:
Yann L'HénoretScreenplay:
Yann L'HénoretCinematography:
Yann L'HénoretComposer:
Stephane LopezCast:
Jean-Paul Gaultier, Marion Cotillard, Catherine Deneuve, Amanda Lear, Madonna, Tonie Marshall, Rossy de Palma, Micheline Presle, Line Renaud (more)Plots(1)
Inspired even as a boy by the Folies Bergere, the legendary Paris cabaret venue (open exactly 150 years, btw, as of May 2), couturier Jean-Paul Gaultier always wanted to stage a show there. "But what story can I tell?" he muses in this doc about the six months of preparation that went into the show. "Mine." Combining fashion with film, dance, theater, and unapologetic over-the-top-ness, the revue, which opened last October 2, offers a 40-year career retrospective of the designer who is practically never spoken of without using the phrase enfant terrible. Notorious among cinephiles for his costumes for The Fifth Element and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover and among pop fans for Madonna's pointy cone brassiere, he also incorporated teddy bears and S&M fetish gear as design motifs. In the show, the fanciful and outrageous (a gown with a train so long it has to be rolled along behind the model on a clothes rack) meets the naughtily witty (a skit sending up Vogue dragon lady Anna Wintour) and the poignant (a tribute to his partner Francis Menuge, who died in 1990). It also nods fabulously to the Bergere's own history: A tribute to '20s star Josephine Baker features her iconic banana skirt, this time encrusted with Swarovski crystals. (Seattle International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Jean-Paul Gaultier
France
Best movies:
Absolutely Fabulous (2001)
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (2016)
Marion Cotillard
France
Best movies:
Inception (2010)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Big Fish (2003)
Catherine Deneuve
France
Best movies:
Persepolis (2007)
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012) - a.f.
Amanda Lear
Best movies:
Dragon Hunters (2008)
Bimboland (1998)
Le Défi (2002)
Madonna
USA
Best movies:
The Work of Director Chris Cunningham (2003) (video compilation)
Live 8 (2005) (concert)
Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99 (1999) (video compilation)
Tonie Marshall
France
Best movies:
Les Sous-doués (1980)
Slightly Pregnant Man, A (1973)
Hitler in Hollywood (2010)
Rossy de Palma
Spain
Best movies:
El perqué de tot plegat (1994)
Toc Toc (2017)
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989)
Micheline Presle
France
Best movies:
The Count of Monte Cristo (1998) (series)
Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)
Villa Borghese (1953)
Line Renaud
France
Best movies:
Driving Madeleine (2022)
My New Partner at the Races (1990)
Welcome to the Sticks (2008)
Catherine Ringer
France
Best movies:
Keep Up Your Right (1987)
Nile Rodgers
USA
Best movies:
The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee (2022) (concert)
Jean Teulé
France
Antoine de Caunes
France
Best movies:
Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle (2001)
L'Homme est une femme comme les autres (1998)
The Color Of Lies (1999)
Pierre Commoy
France