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...Sophia Loren is mythic as Isabella de la Fontaine, the merry widow of recently deceased fashion czar Olivier de la Fontaine. In a world obsessed with interpreting fashion statements, her classic black funeral ensemble accessorized by a stiletto-red stole and umbrella-sized hat speaks volumes about her feelings for her husband. Everyone assumes that his death must have been a vindictive murder, until police discover that he was choked by a particularly malicious sandwich au jambon...
...Lauren Bacall? That she is color-blind, and that her friends apparently don't tell her she's wearing shoes of different shades. Why is Danny Aiello, as a buyer for a Chicago store, in the film? So he can cross-dress in a Chanel suit. At 60, Loren looks great, in or out of her array of glorious millinery, but it's cruel to have her and Mastroianni reprise the strip-tease scene from Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow with a cheap new punch line. Kellerman must endure the same naked shame she did a quarter-century ago in MASH...
...designer (Anouk Aimee) fights a takeover by a Texan (Lyle Lovett). A photographer (Stephen Rea) toys with three magazine editors (Linda Hunt, Sally Kellerman, Tracey Ullman). Two reporters (Tim Robbins and Julia Roberts in a nice little sketch) cover the story from their hotel bedroom. Two handsome Italians (Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni) replay an old love affair. And a FAD-TV reporter (Kim Basinger) chirpily reports every outrage on the runways and in the salons...
...director's mingling with the top dogs of haute couture -- designers, models, financiers et al. -- during one of the big pret-a-porter ("ready-to-wear") shows in Paris last spring. Using the movie's incredibly disparate and big-name cast -- ranging from Stephen Rea to Sophia Loren to Danny Aiello -- Altman goes after the glamour society's pretensions and pointlessness. But, saysTIME Movie Critic Richard Corliss, Pret-a-Porter "is a high concept poorly executed."Post your opinion on theArts & Culturebulletin board...
During last month's Paris shows for ready-to-wear fall clothing, director Robert Altman appeared with stars like Sophia Loren and Julia Roberts to shoot scenes for his new film, Pret-a-Porter (Ready-to-Wear). At first the fashion community welcomed him -- what a chance to show off! What free advertising! But a chill quickly set in. Banning the movie crew from his show, Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld said, "I'm afraid Robert Altman will make fashion look like a nightmarish cartoon." Evidently Lagerfeld has not noticed that he and his colleagues have achieved that all by themselves...