A Little Chaos (2015) trailer has been posted! We’ve talked before about this movie, starring Kate Winslet as a gardener at Louis XIV’s (Alan Rickman) Versailles (Rickman is directing), with costumes by Joan Bergin (The Tudors, The Prestige, My Left Foot).
The film is set in 1682, during the third building campaign of the Versailles gardens, led by Andre Le Notre.
I’m super excited to see this one, because I LOVE Kate Winslet — she is such a talented actress, and she does so well in historical roles. And, while I don’t get swoony about Alan Rickman the way the rest of you do, I do think he’s a very talented actor. And, the trailer looks good! Interesting story, lots of shiny, and Stanley Tucci is HILARIOUS in his one scene.
Now, let’s talk costumes more in-depth:
Seriously, Kate Winslet’s hair! Geebuz, what is up? And who’s the one guy with scraggly locks? Is he some big name I’m not recognizing? This is like the opposite of the 1930s-1960s trend of using perfect modern coifs on the stars in costume drams — instead, let’s give the stars ugly but kinda modern bed-head while all the extras were fabulous period hair.
Boo …. On Jan. 29, 2015 Focus Features removed “A Little Chaos,” from its March 27 release date and has not set a new date.
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/a-little-chaoes-release-pulled-kate-winslet-1201418693/
They always say that if you have an excellent costume designer, then look at the extras to see the really authentic pieces- but the Tudor’s costumes were such fantasy that I don’t know if we could apply that rule.
Kate Winslet’s silhouette is all wrong. I have no idea what they were doing with that corset, but it’s completely unauthentic and it makes all her dresses look wonky. And all the comments about her hair… OMG! That’s just a scandal. WHY do that?
But the men do look good!
I think they’re trying to flatter her larger bust, but, no.