Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? / In and Out of Fashion dvd

Double disc box set of Willaim Klein's films:  Who Are you, POlly Maggoo?  And In and Out of Fashion.  Discs are French imports with optional English subtitles and in PAL Region 0 format.  Discs are in great shape and ship from my personal collection.

Discs are PAL REGION 0 and will not play in traditional American NTSC dvd players.  The viewer will need either a Region free or PAL based dvd player.

QUI ETES-VOUS POLLY MAGGOO ?

For one of the series of monthly programs called "Who are you?" Polly Maggoo is the pseudo-portrait of a super model. Done in a cocktail of styles - Méliès, cinéma vérité, Mack Sennet, Vogue, photo novellas, tabloid press - much of modern mythology is systematically exploded.

Watching Polly Maggoo today is a rare pleasure, plus a real surprise - there's no movie like it before or since. It abounds with visual inventions and right-on perceptions. Thirty years ahead of its time, it satirizes TV's top model feeding frenzy, the world of fashion and brainwashing in general. The film's caustic dialogue and wicked humor strike home unerringly. With terrible, and terribly funny, far-sightedness Klein had foreseen the diarrhea of media bullshit.The film's designer  justifies dressing women in aluminium with a tirade of pretentious creator-speak. "You are a galvanizer and I am galvanized" yelps fashion-victim Violette Leduc, as pundits launch into vapid  psycho-historical explanations.

William Klein excels in the parody of all things-media: television commentators, phony interviews, useless scoops, the True Confessions of a Ruritarian Prince, the concoction of a fairy tale romance - even the vox-pops that foreshadow the spontaneous debates of May '68.  He takes delight in the slaughter of his targets while keeping the poetry of the images and design ever present.

IN AND OUT OF FASHION

This kaleidoscopic film-collage dealing with Klein's work relating to fashion and costume creation (with his wife Jeanne) mixes excerpts from Klein's feature films with imagery from his reportage and fashion photography, his TV commercials, his books, his paintings and even includes rare footage he shot backstage of Yves Saint-Laurent's very first runaway show. The title suggests not only the fashion sporadically played in Klein's production, but also the shifts in taste that have by turns cast him in the spotlight or relegated him to the wings. Given the current revival of attention to nearly all aspects of his career, Klein's now classic work remains very much in fashion.

Available in English Audio Version