Who Are You, Polly Magoo? / In and Out of Fashion ( Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo? )

Who Are You, Polly Magoo? / In and Out of Fashion (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo?
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/NTSC/Region 0 )

Running Time:
255 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1966 - 199 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
William Klein

Written By:
William Klein

Actors:
Dorothy McGowan ..... Polly Maggoo (as Dorothy MacGowan)
Jean Rochefort ..... Grégoire Pecque
Sami Frey ..... Le prince Igor / The Prince
Grayson Hall ..... Miss Maxwell
Philippe Noiret ..... Jean-Jacques Georges, le journaliste / Reporter
Alice Sapritch ..... La reine-mère / The Queen Mother
Fernando Arrabal
Guy D'Avout
Roger Constant
Francis Dumoulin
Luce Fabiole
Isabelle Garçon
Violette Leduc
Michèle Loubet
Marie Marc
William Klein ..... Himself (archive footage)
Azzedine Alaïa ..... Himself (archive footage)
Anémone ..... Herself (archive footage)
Jacques Boudet ..... Himself (archive footage)
Eddie Constantine ..... Himself (archive footage)
Andre Dussollier ..... Himself (archive footage)
Sami Frey ..... Himself (archive footage)
Serge Gainsbourg ..... Himself (archive footage)
Jean-Paul Gaultier ..... Himself (archive footage)
Grace Jones ..... Herself (archive footage)
Tchéky Karyo ..... Himself (archive footage)
Claude Montana ..... Himself (archive footage)
Philippe Noiret ..... Himself (archive footage)
Donald Pleasence ..... Himself (archive footage)
Jean Rochefort ..... Himself (archive footage)
Yves Saint-Laurent ..... Himself (archive footage)
Jacques Seiler ..... Himself (archive footage)
Delphine Seyrig ..... Herself (archive footage)
Zouc ..... Herself (archive footage)

Synopsis:

Who Are You, Polly Magoo?
Satire. Polly Maggoo is a fashion model in Paris, 20, on the runway at the big shows where magazine editor Miss Maxwell is the reigning opinion maker. The ridiculous passes for sublime. Polly becomes the subject of a vapid TV news documentary, 'Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo?,' and she's pursued by the filmmaker and by the prince of Borodine, a small country. We watch as the documentary is shot; we await Polly's arrival in the principate; we observe a lunch in the suburbs; we learn of her childhood in Brooklyn. Is there more to Polly than her pretty face? Is anything below the surface?
In and Out of Fashion
The Paris-based photographer-painter-actor-filmmaker William Klein looks back on five decades of his life and multi-careers in this French documentary. Born in 1926, Klein is a native New Yorker who began living in Paris in 1948, studied painting with Fernand Leger, photographed for Vogue from 1955 to 1965, dropped out of the fashion world for 15 years, and directed hundreds of commercials (from soup to hosiery). He was seen onscreen as an actor (People Will Talk, La Jetee) and worked offscreen as a visual consultant (Louis Malle's 1960 Zazie dans le Metro). Klein made both short and feature documentaries (from fighters to fashion), including and Far From Vietnam (1967) and Muhammed Ali, The Greatest. His dramatic film Who Are You, Polly Magoo? (1966) won the 1967 Prix Jean Vigo. Also excerpted here is Mr. Freedom (1968), a fable about America's intervention in Vietnam.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 24 August, 2009.

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