My husband and I saw this yesterday in Los Angeles at The Landmark. It was so good - audiance clapped at the end (11:00 am show). Whoever did her wardrobe is amazing - she looked so cute; all the colors and vintage outfits. Her eyeglasses (the main pair) were great and her fingernails always looked good too! I just loved all the cool stuff in her house. What a great movie!
shareI just saw it today with a packed house and loved it. A sweet, touching and often hilarious movie. I have not laughed that hard in a while. I also loved Doris's unique style, it's clear she was stuck in another decade but it was done so well. I did wish that instead of completely getting rid of everything in her house it just looked really cute and put together in the end. I don't see her giving it up as her pushy brother wanted... she could have made a killing with an estate sale too, I have seen much worse hoarder wise by the way
shareYou can thank Colleen Atwood for that. She's a multiple Oscar winning costume designer.
sharewell with colleen atwood, that makes sense. the wardrobe was it's own separate movie and thoroughly enjoyable. Her look was really impeccable rather than casually thrown together so i'm not sure if she was stuck in another era in that way or just loved and collected vintage. And the falls she wore? who does that but a serious punk i would think. What a fun movie from all angles; acting, directing, script, everything.
shareI thought of Bill Cunningham and the people he shoots on the streets of NYC every week for The Times (and if you haven't seen the documentary Bill Cunningham New York, see it now!). A lot of them are "ordinary" people who just have great taste in fashion. In an alternate universe, Doris would have been one of the people he shot often, and would have acquired a reputation as someone who knew how to throw different vintage stuff together for a great and original look.
They needed some believable element that would make her stand out as an individual and earn genuine respect from the much younger people she was hanging out with, and this was an inspired choice. And it was perfectly executed -- you believed those were clothes she'd bought over the years (mostly in thrift shops) and you believed she had the skill to put them together that well.
Really, you could change the one sentence plot description to "A woman in her late 60's discovers that her offbeat fashion sense is a big hit with millenials."
Prepare your minds for a new scale of physical, scientific values, gentlemen.share