Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) is costume symbolic of its era; the entire film is filtered through a composite mix of tan and beige. Director Robert Benton opted for a permanent autumn in New York City, artistically maintained through its year long storyline. Autumn is interpretable as a transitional season, reflecting the three act journey of the three central characters. Costume designer Ruth Morley dresses Meryl Streep’s absentee mother Joanna head-to-toe in various shades of brown. Joanna’s appearance is regimented by control and routine, and nearly always finished by that epitome of late 1970s chic and impending yuppiedom, a three quarter length Burberry trench coat.
Confirmation of the Burberry trench functioning with greater purpose than a means to keep dry occurs at the beginning of the film, not via Joanna but her childish and neglectful husband Ted (Dustin Hoffman). Ted recounts a self-indulgent anecdote to his boss: in order...
Confirmation of the Burberry trench functioning with greater purpose than a means to keep dry occurs at the beginning of the film, not via Joanna but her childish and neglectful husband Ted (Dustin Hoffman). Ted recounts a self-indulgent anecdote to his boss: in order...
- 3/21/2013
- by Chris Laverty
- Clothes on Film
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