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(2024)

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6/10
odd premise, possibly unworkable
nerrdrage15 February 2024
From the premiere episode, I get what the premise of this series is: fashion mattered after WWII to help the French feel that life was worth living again.

Okay for starters, I thought it was jazz that did that, but are they really going to be able to pull this off? Especially because in a case of some very infelicitous scheduling, Apple is running Masters of the Air at the same time.

So we get the whipsaw effect of seeing brave pilots getting slaughtered fighting Nazis vs this show, where a bunch of fashion designers are whining and crying about their situation in the same time period. I'll give it a shot but I really doubt this is going to work like they want it to.
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5/10
Why do foreign based stories not film in the home language?
aandb20015 March 2024
Warning: Spoilers
I really want to like this series. It has actors I appreciate. It dramatizes a period time I enjoy learning and watching. It has beautiful fashion and scenery. It takes place in Paris. So many things I love!

However it suffers from something that annoys me. A setting in a country where English is not the first language and all the characters speak in English. It's even WORSE when they don't just own it, and have everyone speak with the accent of the home language.

I know very well that Juliet Binoche speaks French. She is French! But they have her speak English with an accent. Ben Mendelssohn is not French. He speaks English with a French accent. As does every other person. Except the Germans. They speak English with a German accent (even to each other).

It's lazy. It's ridiculous. And it prevents me from giving this more than a 5. It could easily be a 7.

Employ actors who speak the native language. Or do a slow transition with intent (a la Red October!).
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1/10
Abysmal
ellisbrevage15 February 2024
The direction is really terrible. Almost unwatchable. The camera is either inexplicably on the floor, or the scenes are filmed through a telescope. We're suddenly behind a vase, or looking through a streamy window, or behind a bush, or Binoche's beautiful face is obscured by a telephone. And what's with the soft focus? Yes, we already know it's 1943. You said so at the beginning, although the screen is so vaseline'd that granted it was hard to read. The writing is stilted. There is no nuance. The actors are wasted. It's difficult to understand how such an engaging story can be told so badly. And I was so looking forward to the season.
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5/10
Why didn't they use a younger actor?
bildi-8844414 March 2024
They should have chosen a younger actor to play Christian Dior. He was 39 at the time when the events of the first episode took place, but they made the actor look even older than his real age which is 54. But with the grey hair and everything he looks at least 60-65.

Juliette Binoche is great as always, but the writers did not really provide a good storyline for her character. I wonder whether Coco Chanel was really so opportunistic and at the same time so naive as to trust that slimy Spatz guy... But she seems to have been capable of playing a monster and an innocent victim at the same time. Anyway, even if only some of the nazi-friendly stories are true I wonder how the Chanel house is still standing?

Were really all designers gay in Paris? Also, why didn't they just hire French actors speaking real French instead of making everyone speak in English with a French accent? It doesn't make any sense...
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