The hype surrounding the 2013 opening film of the 66th Festival de Cannes wasn’t all for nothing. In the drizzling rain the stars of Baz Luhrmann’s latest big screen outing, F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic American novelThe Great Gatsby, hit the red carpet last night for an unforgettable experience.
Just before Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Toby Maguire hit the soggy red carpet, two cars pulled up and pouring out was a flurry of those ‘bright young things’ that made the 20s one of the most iconic decades for youth, extravagance, fashion, and jazz. Spilling onto the red carpet the gang of hot-footing darlings danced their way down the red carpet and up the stairs, making a delicious intro to the director and stars of the film.
The Great Gatsby, shown in 3D and 2D (we highly recommend seeing the film in the 2D format), is a tragedy of love, loss, confusion, anger, mistakes, regret, and betrayal. Taking place during the height of the jazz ageThe Great Gatsby symbolised all of the excesses that a newly liberated youth could possess and a decadent lifestyle that produced a beauty and thirst all to itself, and gave way to its name – the Roaring Twenties.
Luhrmann has a way of giving his films a deft touch that makes them feel and look more genuine and much more beautiful to watch. One only has to see the opening scene of Moulin Rouge to truly understand what he does and how he does it. There are going to be millions of words written about the film and the characters so we thought we would take a different approach and focus a little more detail on the costumes worn by the delightfully confused and fickle Daisy Buchanan.
