Jean Paul Gaultier: Freak & Chic
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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).
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Cast
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Jean-Paul Gaultier
Self
Known for
Absolutely Fabulous
Tonie Marshall
Self
Known for
The Under-Gifted
A Slightly Pregnant Man
Yann L'Henoret
Marion Cotillard
Self
Known for
Contagion
Assassin's Creed
Rossy de Palma
Self
Known for
Toc Toc
Little Birds
Gilles Blanchard
Gilles Blanchard
Catherine Deneuve
Self
Known for
Dancer in the Dark
Repulsion
Grichka Bogdanoff
Grichka Bogdanoff
Also in
Le voyage fantastique des frères Bogdanov
Fort Boyard
Madonna
Self
Known for
Arthur and the Invisibles
Evita
Igor Bogdanoff
Igor Bogdanoff
Also in
Le voyage fantastique des frères Bogdanov
Fort Boyard
Anna Wintour
Self
Also in
In Vogue: The 90s
Oscar de la Renta : A Life Well Lived
Guillaume Bouthors
Francis
Yann L'Hénoret Director · Laurent Lefebvre Editor
Worldwide gross $18K · United States release May 17, 2019 · Produced in France
Box office
Worldwide gross
$18,092
Production
Canal+
Production
StudioCanal
Production · Distribution
CAPA
Production
France
Produced in
Languages
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
English · French
Release dates
France · December 19, 2018
Limited theatrical
United States · May 17, 2019
Premiere · Seattle International Film Festival
Estonia
June 1, 2020
Germany
February 6, 2020 · Theatrical
Hong Kong SAR China
September 4, 2019 · Premiere · MOViE MOViE Life is Art
September 8, 2019 · Theatrical
Lithuania
June 26, 2020
Poland
May 10, 2019 · Docs Against Gravity Film Festival
Russia
February 13, 2020 · Theatrical
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