Take a break from work: watch a trailer…
This must be the international trailer: even trailers for arthouse releases that will get limited play in the U.S. and Canada never get subtitles — they get cleverly edited to eliminate any dialogue that will suggest that the film is not in English.
And I’m glad I saw this trailer, because I’m now eager to see the film. Not only is it written and directed by a woman — Anne Fontaine, whose The Girl from Monaco is at a few U.S. arthouses now — but it’s about a woman doing interesting things, like reinventing fashion. Hoorah!
I love how old-fashioned this trailer is, too, with the “She DEFIED CONVENTION” and “DEFINED the MODERN WOMAN” splashed across it.
Audrey Tautou and Alessandro Nivola? *swoon* to both…
“She likes to dress with no corsets”! You go, girl.
Coco Before Chanel is now playing in the U.K.; it opens in the U.S. on September 25.
Interestingly enough, when this came out in Australia a couple of weeks ago, it was titled “coco avant chanel” as opposed to “coco before chanel”
You guys can’t handle french?
No, alas, most American’s can’t handle much French – or any foreign language, for that matter.
Weird exception : last year’s “La Môme” was re-entitled “La Vie en rose.” I suppose that song is iconic; and very few in the U.S. would get the slang term “la môme” or the relationship to Piaf if it were translated directly.
Anyway, I’m very excited to see this. I must admit to ignorance of Anne Fontaine’s work, but this looks very interesting. Along with the aforementioned biopic of Edith Piaf and the soon-to-be-released “Julie and Julia,” I’m starting to sense a trend…
And when Grosse Pointe Blank was released, many local film critics outside of Michigan wondered in print whether movie-goers would understand that Grosse Pointe was a suburb of Detroit…
In other words, even when it comes to American things, American movie-goers are presumed to be ignorant until proven knowledgeable.
Especially if they live in the South…
Or the West…
Or the Bronx…;-)
Je ressentiment votre remarque sur la Bronx!