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Jean Paul Gaultier : Freak & Chic
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Jean Paul Gaultier : Freak & Chic

Dec 19, 2018
1h 36m
★ 6.4

Overview

Inspired even as a boy by the Folies Bergere, the legendary Paris cabaret venue, 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 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 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).

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Canal+

Cast

Jean-Paul Gaultier

Self

Jean-Paul Gaultier

Tonie Marshall

Self

Tonie Marshall

Marion Cotillard

Self

Marion Cotillard

Rossy de Palma

Self

Rossy de Palma

Catherine Deneuve

Self

Catherine Deneuve

Madonna

Self

Madonna

Anna Wintour

Self

Anna Wintour

Amanda Lear

Self

Amanda Lear

Antoine de Caunes

Self

Antoine de Caunes

Nile Rodgers

Self

Nile Rodgers

Micheline Presle

Self

Micheline Presle

Line Renaud

Self

Line Renaud

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