The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Country: US
Technical: Super 35/Technicolor 109m
Director: David Frankel
Cast: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker, Emily Blunt
Synopsis:
An aspiring journalist with little interest in fashion gains a job as PA to the editor of the most prestigious fashion magazine in Manhattan. Once having proved herself she must maintain the standards of attentiveness her employer expects, which means effectively relinquishing a private life. Will she be seduced by the dark side of the modern professional career?
Review:
An entertaining distaff version of Wall Street, which has one or two persuasive things to say about the clothing industry, and wallows in the accoutrements of the upper end of the commercial spectrum in so far it sets off the delightful Miss Hathaway, but essentially classes Miranda as one with the diabolical success machine that was Gekko. This is all the more hypocritical in as much as New York itself is flaunted - whether bottom up by day or top down by night - as a desirable consumer commodity and the film itself is part of an industry for which much the same competitiveness and sacrifice of self-respect must be second nature. Or have I seen too many films about Hollywood?
Country: US
Technical: Super 35/Technicolor 109m
Director: David Frankel
Cast: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker, Emily Blunt
Synopsis:
An aspiring journalist with little interest in fashion gains a job as PA to the editor of the most prestigious fashion magazine in Manhattan. Once having proved herself she must maintain the standards of attentiveness her employer expects, which means effectively relinquishing a private life. Will she be seduced by the dark side of the modern professional career?
Review:
An entertaining distaff version of Wall Street, which has one or two persuasive things to say about the clothing industry, and wallows in the accoutrements of the upper end of the commercial spectrum in so far it sets off the delightful Miss Hathaway, but essentially classes Miranda as one with the diabolical success machine that was Gekko. This is all the more hypocritical in as much as New York itself is flaunted - whether bottom up by day or top down by night - as a desirable consumer commodity and the film itself is part of an industry for which much the same competitiveness and sacrifice of self-respect must be second nature. Or have I seen too many films about Hollywood?
Country: US
Technical: Super 35/Technicolor 109m
Director: David Frankel
Cast: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker, Emily Blunt
Synopsis:
An aspiring journalist with little interest in fashion gains a job as PA to the editor of the most prestigious fashion magazine in Manhattan. Once having proved herself she must maintain the standards of attentiveness her employer expects, which means effectively relinquishing a private life. Will she be seduced by the dark side of the modern professional career?
Review:
An entertaining distaff version of Wall Street, which has one or two persuasive things to say about the clothing industry, and wallows in the accoutrements of the upper end of the commercial spectrum in so far it sets off the delightful Miss Hathaway, but essentially classes Miranda as one with the diabolical success machine that was Gekko. This is all the more hypocritical in as much as New York itself is flaunted - whether bottom up by day or top down by night - as a desirable consumer commodity and the film itself is part of an industry for which much the same competitiveness and sacrifice of self-respect must be second nature. Or have I seen too many films about Hollywood?