Set in 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
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In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
I thought it would be some kind of faux-Amish getup, which would be a daring choice. This just looks like a normal dress, neither modest not revealing.
I agree with the commenter who said the snowflake pattern looks like Lisa Simpson's head.
She looks dreadful! Neither the style nor the color of the dress look flattering to her. The dress is downright ugly, in fact, and all that demure, dainty laciness contrasts so sharply with her big bones and enormous head (with manjaw) that she looks like a guy in drag. Awful!
It is sexy when the female body is not as visible as it is suggested. Then the terrible men's brains fills in the missing parts with gusto. But since that only works for heterosexual men, it may be unconstitutional to dress modestly.
Lawrence Sterne, in his inimitable "A Sentimental Journey," describes the phases of a female life thusly:
"There are three epochas in the empire of a French woman.—She is coquette,—then deist,—then dévote: the empire during these is never lost,—she only changes her subjects. When thirty-five years and more have unpeopled her dominion of the slaves of love, she re-peoples it with slaves of infidelity,—and then with the slaves of the church."
Today, a coquette is just a hot young actress, deism is replaced with progressive politics and religious devotion is demonstrated with respectable charitable works.
Ms. Blanchett is following Stern's observations from 1768 to the letter, as done by Jolie, Paltrow, Foster and innumerable other actresses over the centuries.
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"Modesty and traditional feminity". Is that ad- and retailer-speak this season for "ugly dresses with bad fit"?
My first thought was "looks like somebody's fussy vinyl kitchen tablecloth".
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Set in 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
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In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
I thought it would be some kind of faux-Amish getup, which would be a daring choice. This just looks like a normal dress, neither modest not revealing.
I agree with the commenter who said the snowflake pattern looks like Lisa Simpson's head.
urgh, "nor" revealing.
After Cate appeared in "Truth" I have no interest in her. Very disappointed in Dennis Quaid for the same reason.
Is that blue or gray?
Less really is more.
Modest and traditional feminity, you say?
I say, Hell yeah!
It looks like she's wearing doilies up top. Cate can pull that off I suppose, but not the rest of us.
Well, if Sharia law comes to the West, modesty and traditional femininity may save Ms. Blanchett and others from a good stoning.
Reminded me of the "housedresses" my mother wore in the late 40's.
She looks dreadful! Neither the style nor the color of the dress look flattering to her. The dress is downright ugly, in fact, and all that demure, dainty laciness contrasts so sharply with her big bones and enormous head (with manjaw) that she looks like a guy in drag. Awful!
Better than a pantsuit by far.
Oh, how precious! She forgot the season difference between Australia and North America.
She's a very pretty woman.
Meh. Pretty as in fuckable?
It is sexy when the female body is not as visible as it is suggested. Then the terrible men's brains fills in the missing parts with gusto. But since that only works for heterosexual men, it may be unconstitutional to dress modestly.
Lawrence Sterne, in his inimitable "A Sentimental Journey," describes the phases of a female life thusly:
"There are three epochas in the empire of a French woman.—She is coquette,—then deist,—then dévote: the empire during these is never lost,—she only changes her subjects. When thirty-five years and more have unpeopled her dominion of the slaves of love, she re-peoples it with slaves of infidelity,—and then with the slaves of the church."
Today, a coquette is just a hot young actress, deism is replaced with progressive politics and religious devotion is demonstrated with respectable charitable works.
Ms. Blanchett is following Stern's observations from 1768 to the letter, as done by Jolie, Paltrow, Foster and innumerable other actresses over the centuries.
Galadriel lookin' good!
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