No. 5 the Film
No. 5 the Film | |
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Directed by | Baz Luhrmann |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Mandy Walker |
Edited by | Daniel Schwarze |
Music by | Claude Debussy (arranged by Craig Armstrong) |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | Chanel |
Release date |
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Running time | 180 secs |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | US$33 million |
No. 5 the Film (2004) is a 180-second
Runtime
The original version after preliminary editing came to around 360 seconds, but this was later edited to a more manageable 180 seconds, including 60 seconds of credits, for television broadcast and cinema advertisement. Further cutting has led to subsequent 90-second (as seen in the UK) and 30-second (seen mostly in the U.S. and Canada) versions of the advert, shown after the first runs of the advert.
Plot
A famous celebrity (Nicole Kidman) runs away in a pink dress in the middle of Times Square in New York City, only to get into a cab with the one man who does not know who she is, a plot line similar to Roman Holiday.[3] After four days in his Lower East Side apartment, her secretary (Lagerfeld) commands her to return to her life as a celebrity.[4] The paparazzi take pictures of her as she walks up stairs, and she looks at big letters, a graphical device often used in Luhrmann's Red Curtain Trilogy, on top of a building that read "Coco Chanel" with her lover standing next to them. They smile at each other and then the credits are shown.
Music
The main musical theme of the film is
Sequel
In 2014 Baz Luhrmann created a sequel film titled Chanel No. 5: The One That I Want. The film stars model Gisele Bündchen and actor Michiel Huisman.[3]
References
- ^ "£18m buys two minutes of Nicole Kidman" by Jane Martinson, The Guardian, 22 November 2004
- ^ "The most expensice TV adverts ever made" Archived 2017-08-12 at the Wayback Machine by Andrew Partridge, RedC Marketing, 6 February 2015
- ^ a b "A Conversation with Baz Luhrmann on Chanel No. 5's The One That I Want" by Sunhee Grinnell, Vanity Fair, 15 October 2014
- ^ "Every second counts in $42m three-minute 'film'" by Charlotte Edwards, The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 November 2004
External links
- No. 5 the Film, without credits (2:02 on YouTube
- No. 5 the Film, with credits (3:01) on YouTube
- Chanel. 5: The One That I Want (3:16) on YouTube