Sometimes when I get obsessed with one particular costume from a movie, I actually do track down the film and force myself to watch it. The results aren’t always interesting — maybe that was the only great costume in the flick! Or maybe, as in this case, the film is nearly three hours of a French ramble in and out of World War I. But I stuck with Marcel Proust’s Time Regained aka Le Temps Retrouvé (1999) because there was more than one fabulous costume, even though I couldn’t accurately summarize the contents of the movie.
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Thank you, Trystan! Coincidentally, “Time Regained” is on my Kanopy watch list, as I haven’t (re)watched it in about 15 years. (I was a French major; Proust gets into one’s system, even if one doesn’t always understand him.) DO see this, Frock Flickers; it’s a very good attempt to get at his style and preoccupations. Plus the costuming and settings are fabulous, the casting mostly spot-on, and it features the only performance by Catherine Deneuve that I’ve really liked: there’s a scene where she goes to…visit an old protector, and we suddenly see and hear Slutty Odette emerge from behind C.D.’s porcelain facade.
Kanopy was how I watched it! And Catherine Deneuve was such a key player in this, in a good way.