Fashion, love and money: applicants for Oscar are released in Russian rental

The Ghostly Thread is the eighth film of one of the legislators of the world of world cinema Paul Thomas Anderson (“Nights in the style of the Bug”, “Magnolia”, “Oil”, “Master”) was accepted with a bang by American film critics. Six Oscar nominations, including “Best Film”, “Directive”, “Soundtrek”.

This is a deep-sea dive in the backstage of the London Fashion Industry in the 1950s. The story of the British tailor Reynolds Woodcock, composed by Anderson for acting triumph Daniel Day-Luis. The effect is strengthened by the actor’s thousandth by the statement that this is his last work in the cinema.

After a meaningless war, humanity is looking for a point of support. And which is more reliable and optimistic than a women's dress? In the fashion house of Woodcock, Countesses, Cinema Star, Heiress of the Throne are transformed. In a word, British high society. Despite the steep steps of the stairs of the monastery of the harsh “Lord of Fashion” Woodcock, high -ranking ladies of different ages and physique crawl into the fitting rooms, freezing me at the maestro and his tailors conjure over another perfection.

Anderson admires the time in which gender differences are not hidden, as today, on the contrary, is focused on clothes. Dresses on the floor, corsets, satin ribbons, Venetian lace and hats. Perfectly tailored trips, sparkling cufflinks, shoes polished to shine.

For Woodcock, the sketch of the outfit is a sacrament that requires inspiration, fitting is a priesthood. A pin is a microscopic injection in the body of a dress that comes to life before our eyes. The hero of Daniel Day-Luis embodied the features of many designers of fashionable British houses, as well as Christobal Balenciaga, an aristocrat of high fashion and master of lace, Charles James-American couturier, Christian Dior.

The high -class tailor is given to the profession fanatically, without extraneous hobbies. The old bachelor has breakfast with his sister - the housekeeper who understands him without words (Leslie Mancwill). Habitually reigns in the female world. It is wildly annoyed when a “someone” is more noticeable in the dress than a mannequin or a hanger. When “someone” rings a spoon in a cup, noisily pours tea, asks ridiculous questions ... Who is allowed to distract the master in moments of inspiration and a concentrated pause? No-ku.

All this well -tailored castle begins to crack at the seams when an alma, an accidentally met, awkward waitress from Eastern Europe with a bashful blush on her cheeks (Luxembourg actress Vika Cryps - the opening of this film), enters the fashionable Kuturi Fortress.

Not at all the perfect model that he has been looking for all his life. Something else ... with a hazard of danger ...

Anderson embroiders a thin needle with a complex pattern of relations. Love considers as phantom pain. He turns another experiment with the “work of fate” (Nabokov) into an exquisite and whimsical psychological game.

I remember the sensational process of Soviet times. They tried a woman who, for many years, added to her husband arsenic, which was discovered during a blood test. The husband did not die, he even greeted, but there was an attempt on life. The young wife of the fashion king is not ready to put up with the role of a wordless hanger. On the contrary, she intends to warm up the icy heart of an eccentric turquoil at all costs and by any means.

The film is charged with the energy of mutual attraction and repulsion of heroes, inexplicable disappointment and the flicker of elusive charm.

Completely transformed, as if he were namara -shaped to a gloss, Day Lewis plays an arrogant artist, a charismatic eccentric dictator. At the same time, it makes it possible to feel the vulnerability of the character concreted by good manners. At first, he was discouraged by the ability of Alma - either an angel or the devil - to challenge him. But the powerful of this world is allowed to taste the happiness of dependence on the other, to feel helpless, half -dead, guarded. Galathei sometimes tame their pygmalions.

Anderson weaves the plot thread, bending the tension with references to the Hitchcock "Rebecca".

Violation of the logic and the naivety of dramatic moves is replenished with a rare sense of film, the air of the time and the relations indescribable on the modern screen. In this choreography of views, touches, injections, pauses, the musical magic of Johnny Greenwood, a British musician, a multi -instrumentalist (he wrote music for “oil”, “master”) is of great importance. The soundtrack of the film, nostalgic for a flowing era, has already been released on the disk, is performed in concert versions, I hope that the Oscar will receive its Oscar.

Urgent advice: “Ghostly thread” should be watched on a large screen with original sound and subtitles in order to evaluate the nuances of film illusion embodied by Anderson.

Money is expensive

The painting “All the Money of the World” of the Oscar -winner Ridley Scott (the film has three Oscar nominations, including the “Best Director”) was noted by the unexpected presence of Christopher Plammer. The actor replaced Kevin Spacey who fell into disgrace for the “sex dialect” in an already mounted picture. The producers of the "replacement of the player" cost $ 10 million. But the scandal warmed up interest in the picture. And now the 88-year-old flammer turned out to be the oldest actor nominated for Oscar.

Although he was determined in the category of “Best Supporting Role”, the billionaire Paul Getty, the oil magnate, is certainly the main character of the picture. In addition, the flammer is closer by the age of his hero. He filigree paints the character of the old “stingy knight”, an irreconcilable hostage of his capital.

The plot is based on the real story described in the book of John Parson. In Rome, the grandson of one of the richest people of Paul Getty is abducted. A universal shock causes a billionaire to pay a ransom. "How much would you pay for the return of a teenager?" - the journalists were imposed. The answer was so odious that it was replicated by all news programs for several days: "Nothing." The desperate mother (Michelle Williams is nominated in the “Best Female Role” category) is united with the head of the Oil Safety Service to save the sixteen -year -old John Paul.

This is a detailed and honest job. Rome of the seventies in brown tones, as if from the old films of Fellini. Farneze Square. Prostitutes. Unshaven bandits from Southern Alabria. Among them there will be one who regrets the boy. But first of all, Scott I want to understand the motivation of the millionaire.

Getty has his own "Pravda". He creates his own empire since 1948, the first in the deserts of Saudi Arabia began to drill wells, persuaded to cooperate with him Bedouins, built a huge tanker. 17 million for his grandson for him is not such a large amount. For nothing that Paul is a favorite heir. But he has 14 grandchildren, just start paying ... In the veins of Getty, oil flows. Money is his mission. He knows the price of money, even erases his shirts. Only fools do not understand that becoming rich and be rich - different things. You must swear money on loyalty and never betray it. And also money for Getty Drive, game. The meaning of life. He knows how to hide, feeling the enemy’s slack, to intercept the initiative. He is a predator, not herbivore, like his meaningless heirs.

In fact, Scott offers us another variation on the topic of Sheylok or stingy. For a rich man, Getty is a way to be free. However, money brings only lack of freedom, loneliness, trouble.

The millionaire is forced to choose “inanimate objects”: paintings, sculptures, palaces. Unlike “true” things, people are capable of betrayal. The family, unlike a successful business, disappoints, brings only losses and problems.

Strong script. The workshop of directing Scott ("Alien", "Running the blade", "Martian"). The film, like a courier train, follows from the departure station to the final on a hard schedule, without deviations.

But - too long. Details. As if for Scott himself it is vital to unravel the entire intrigue of Kidneping and reproduce it in detail. As if he does not care about the viewer. At times, the film is similar to a newspaper report from the scene of the crime. And his morality, although not in demand by the modern world, is all too obvious: "All the money of the world will not save from loneliness, mental impoverishment." And even the replacement of the “sexual predator” Spacey with a flammer, used as a bonus to promote the film, did not help too much. In America, the picture collected a modest box office. And it is unlikely that Oscar will return the producers money spent on “all the money of the world”.