Rage
Above, Jude Law in fab drag. A still from the forthcoming feature Rage, directed by Sally Potter, in which Law plays a female model named "Minx." The short version: A young student uses his phonecam to shoot interviews with the staff of a New York fashion house, and posts them online without the interviewees' knowledge or consent. A runway accident turns into a murder investigation, then, "denial leads to devastation." Here's a New York Times piece about the film, by Guy Trebay.
Zoolander it is not. Here's a Flickr set with more stills.
You'll spot Steve Buscemi, Judi Dench, John Leguizamo, Dianne Wiest, and Eddie Izzard all in the trailer, which is embedded after the jump.
(Thanks, Karol Martesko-Fenster)
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I've got to say that I expected a little more - strikes me as a series of screen tests. It feels as if they're practicing for roles instead of actually being who their characters.
Lily Cole is at the bottom of the Uncanny Valley.
This is really a hoot! I like the casting that I see and Jude Law made me laugh. I think I will want to see this when it comes out.
Woe... Jude Law looks totally hot in this one. He's a confuser.
@1 Seconded
Perhaps one day, through the miracle of CG, we'll see a love scene between Mister Jude Law and Miss Jude Law.
@Demophon. Ha! He's a confuser. Nice Boosch reference.
Oh boy.
I remember being in my early teens when To Wong Foo came out and being very amazed at how good John Leguizamo looked in drag.
Can't say Mr Law looks as impressive, but still, this sounds like an intersting film.
Holy goddamn, Jude Law. I wish I made half so sexy a woman as he does. And I was born one.
Also, if Lily Cole isn't a sign that anime characters are coming to life, I don't know what is.
Jude Law sexy?!?!?!
Come on now, he feels totally fake and, to me, his character is, purposely I'd guess, some bad mix of Gloria Swanson + Marlene Dietrich, with an ounce of Cruella De Ville maybe even. I've seen a man in drag that took my breath away once, not suspecting for one millisecond that he wasn't a woman: he was, quite literally, thousands of light years ahead of Law in style, elegance and sexiness while no less exagerated.
This being said it could work great for comedy.
Saw this at the Berlin Film Festival, high expectations but ended up very disappointed.
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@ IAMINNOCENT
But this obviously is a comedy.
I agree with #1; and add that they're overusing that annoying theatrical method of telling the audience about the characters just by having the characters be unrealistically open about everything. Why would people react to being filmed by pouring out their every thought as if to a lifelong friend?
In the description I assumed the phone was hidden, because otherwise the concept wouldn't work. Seems I was half right.
Given the "confession booth" of MTV's The Real World and how open the participants were there, I'm puzzled by #13's question as to why people would be averse to "pouring out their every thought". Given a chance to talk, one on one, about something important, people will unload. There's some very old interviewer's tricks that get people talking with ease. I like the idea, that a film student, who nobody is going to really take seriously, using a phone cam, can get these people to spill pretty much everything, and then be in the right place at the right time to catch something major.
Super ultra meh.
I temporarily mistook David Oyelowo for the Waffle Fries/Unforgivable guy.
Somebody ought to give the Waffle Fries guy a part in a film.
thanks to the cheekbones, I am now having Ziggy Stardust flashbacks.
Gigolo Joe, whaddaya know?
Jude Law is dirty pretty, any which way.
@12: *squints* *fapfapfapfap*
Why can't Jude be satisfied being the object of desire for straight women and gay men everywhere already? Does he really need to make the rest of us feel kind of funny downstairs too!?!?
Also, I was surprisingly aroused by the clip where Judi Dench says "pornography." Rrrowwr.
I bet Eddie Izzard is sad he didn't get asked to do drag, as he's an executive transvestite and all. Actually, I would have preferred it if Eddie would have been in the dress instead of Law. He looks kind of plain. Jude law isn't in drag, he's a boy in a dress. :(
@IAMINNOCENT:
"he was, quite literally, thousands of light years ahead of Law in style, elegance and sexiness while no less exagerated."
I believe you didn't actually mean that he was actually far away nor that spatial distance is some indicator of one's place on a continuum of style.
Sigh.
All right, my English gets rusted up between post. I thought that I made clear that I meant that... oh, nevermind. ;)
Jude Law looks like Sharon Osbourne