Кто вы, Полли Магу? / Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo? (1966): ana

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Кто вы, Полли Магу? / Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo? (1966)

Sep 18, 2010 03:13

Кто вы, Полли Маггу? / Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo? / Who are you Polly Maggoo?
Страна: Франция
Год выпуска: 1966
Жанр: Сатирическая кинофантазия
Режиссер: Уильям Кляйн / William Klein
В ролях: Дороти Макгоун, Жан Рошфор, Сами Фрей, Грейсон Холл, Филипп Нуаре, Алис Саприч, Фернандо Аррабаль, Джоанна Шимкус, Пегги Моффитт, Ричард Аведон, Льюис Фаурер, Жанлу Сьефф

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Культовая абсурдистская сатира на модный бизнес, снятая фотографом Уильямом Кляйном еще в 1966 году. Кляйн мешает жанры, стили, пародирует их, становится вдруг серьезным или острит с серьезной миной. Ингредиентами сумасшедшего коктейля, пародирующего стилистику "новой волны", стали: американская модель, любимица парижского "Vogue" Полли Магу, влюбленный в ее рекламную фотографию принц из Далеких Северных Стран Игорь Бородин, пара шпионов, посланных отыскать будущую принцессу, редакция журнала "Vogue" и режиссер телепередачи "Кто вы, Полли Магу?". Его фильм не поддается никакой классификации и сравнениям. Современники автора восприняли этот шедевр с недоумением.

“HE HAS RE-CREATED WOMAN!”
Miss Maxwell

"Я бы выделила творчество Уильяма Кляйна, совершившего революцию в области модной фотографии. Он снимает моделей за кулисами или на улицах города. Он вносит в документальную фотографию кинематографический взгляд. В любом статичном снимке Уильяма Кляйна мы видим движение. Для него очень значимо понятие случайного, неважного, второстепенного… Его книга «Нью-Йорк» и фотографии моды - это колоссальное концептуальное открытие. В 60-е годы он снимает фильмы "Освещенный Бродвей", "Кто вы, Полли Магу?", " Далеко от Вьетнама", "Мистер Фридом". Его фильмы смотрятся невероятно свежо и современно до сих пор." - Ольга Сиблова

Klein’s experience shooting for French TV and Vogue inspired his first fiction feature, Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (1966), a savage look at cultural image making that is all at once a fashion exposé, a raucous attack on media, and a fractured fairy tale. It’s a flipped-out portrait of an American model in Paris (Dorothy MacGowan) pursued by both a love-struck TV producer (Jean Rochefort) and an obsessive Prince Charming (Sami Frey), told with a Buñuelian eye for the surreal and absurd.

Klein had always detested the pretensions of the fashion industry; his sardonic photos so inverted traditional ideas of glamour that Vogue would often censor them. Klein’s ciao to that world, Polly Maggoo even blasphemously parodied Vogue’s editor in chief and fashion high priestess, Diana Vreeland. Klein would remain fascinated by fashion and ideas of beauty and desire, but he would soon move down ever more audacious avenues of political filmmaking.

Donyale Luna

Grayson Hall

Jeanloup Sieff, Peggy Moffit

Louis Faurer

Richard Avedon

Joanna Shimkus, Sami Frey

Magazine: Numero 75;
Editorial: Une touriste a Paris;
Photographer: Luciana Val and Franco Musso;
Model: Darla Baker.

Qui êtes-vous Dorothy McGowan?

Curators Kohle Yohannan and Harold Koda certainly came in “with a bang” last Friday evening as “The Model as Muse” series continued with its second presentation, Qui êtes-vous Polly Maggoo? But it would take more than a broken water glass to ruin Dorothy McGowan’s flashback evening.

Everyone seemed to enjoy the light satirical message expressed about the fashion industry, yet few were familiar with the film as it had never been screened in the United States. Still it was sweet and refreshing, and said to have been the first of its kind, created ingeniously in classic ’60s-style by the insiders themselves.

Luckily viewers were able to hear from the former model and film star during a short discussion beginning with a slideshow of her work, which led to the story of her career.

Born to Irish immigrants in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Dorothy described herself as a hardworking young woman without a sense of fashion. “I wasn’t stylish, I just happened to be long and lanky with a baby’s face.” After years of working odd jobs, she took a chance and signed with an unknown modeling agency.

Work was slow for the $3-a-day fitness model until an ambitious new agent took interest in the fresh face. And it wasn’t long before she had booked four-consecutive Vogue covers, numerous campaigns, and a deal with Chanel. She gushed about her favorite designer and described wearing her silk-lined clothes as a truly dreamlike experience. “You forget yourself, float, and do magical things.”

When it came to photographers she also picked favorites, particularly William Klein who was also the film’s director. She smiled as she reminisced over their snarky “brother and sister” moments, but when asked how territorial the photographers were at the time, quickly replied, “Oh, nobody owned me.”

She recalled her modeling days fondly: “I was happy to be working when I did, breaking boundaries; there were no more rules in the sixties.” Dorothy also brought some perspective to the era as she reminded the audience the globalized world that we know today didn’t exist at the time. “It was an interesting responsibility and a privilege to be the first American that many people had ever worked with or seen,” she said.

Following the film she became suddenly scarce on the topic of the international fashion scene. “For me, happiness was always in the process of creating.” But fashion was merely a chapter of her life in the arts: “I stopped modeling in 1974…and began being a model for my family.” ~ Danielle Alvarez

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DOROTHY MCGOWAN
Dorothy McGowan (sometimes credited as Dorothy MacGowan, born circa 1939) is a Brooklyn, New York-born former model and actress. She was discovered as a talent agent picked her out of a crowd of Beatles fans at Kennedy Airport. Her sole screen credit is for the 1966 French film Who Are You, Polly Magoo?, in which she had the starring role of a supermodel. As a model McGowan appeared on countless covers of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Glamour, and other publications in the 1960s. She was photographed by Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Melvin Sokolsky, Francesco Scavullo, and others. A daughter of Irish immigrants Sarah and Michael McGowan and born in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, she had one sister, Mary, and two brothers, Peter (1930-2007), a policeman who became a Roman Catholic priest, and James, a policeman whose role as lead negotiator in a hostage crisis was dramatized in the film Dog Day Afternoon. McGowan was one of photographer William Klein's favorite models. After the release of his film Who Are You, Polly Magoo?, she disappeared from public view and apparently neither acted nor modeled again, according to Klein. She was married to and divorced from photographer Didier Dorot,with whom she has two children, Damien and Juliet. Dorothy Dorot now lives in Mamaroneck, New York.