This is a weird, unsettling gem. Loved the soundtrack, the directing, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and the 60s style and decorum. Recommended if you're looking for something original and twisted.
Dario Argento meets Quentin Dupieux. Very reminiscent of the classic Italian atmospheric horror, but set in a British aesthetic and it works really well. This movie seems to capture perfectly what it must like to be a woman. My empathy levels were off the charts while watching this. Brilliant flick.
I could totally see this working as an anthology series.
When I was doing a romance comics podcast, we quickly came upon a empowering red dress theory, but what if the red dress were empowered instead? In Fabric is the weird neo-giallo about a cursed dress you didn't know you wanted. I think more highly of it if director Peter Strickland didn't insist on movie the story away from its first story to tell a second about a fourth of the way from the end. I'm way too invested in the story of Sheila - Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Secrets & Lies) who is incredibly good here - a single mother looking to start dating in London's Swinging Sixties, even if I understand that only through a passing of the dead man's gun (um, dead woman's dress) can the story make its point. Although what point that might be is a little elusive, though it's an entertaining ride as you try to figure it out. The haunted dress premise is absurd and the film doubles down with absurdist humor. Especially funny are the invasive people in the service industry - the boutique personnel dressed for Tim Burton's funeral, the ridiculous bank managers, the gangster running a washing machine repair shop, the waiter who needs to know you name... I suppose the theme is capitalism and pushing its mechanics to the extreme: The consumer good that kills made in hell's sweatshop, the epic poetry of retail, the fetishization of department store mannequins, HR prying into your darkest dreams, coupon dating, etc. And it's beautiful to look at too, especially the warm tones of Sheila's story. Things look less phantasmagorical in the light of the present day.
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toopsy
This is a weird, unsettling gem. Loved the soundtrack, the directing, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and the 60s style and decorum. Recommended if you're looking for something original and twisted.Ronet
Dario Argento meets Quentin Dupieux. Very reminiscent of the classic Italian atmospheric horror, but set in a British aesthetic and it works really well. This movie seems to capture perfectly what it must like to be a woman. My empathy levels were off the charts while watching this. Brilliant flick.I could totally see this working as an anthology series.
boulderman
Old style, B-movie 80s ...m find idea and great acting and dialogue but the storu was too flat overall 6/10A slower brooding presence would have helped
Siskoid
When I was doing a romance comics podcast, we quickly came upon a empowering red dress theory, but what if the red dress were empowered instead? In Fabric is the weird neo-giallo about a cursed dress you didn't know you wanted. I think more highly of it if director Peter Strickland didn't insist on movie the story away from its first story to tell a second about a fourth of the way from the end. I'm way too invested in the story of Sheila - Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Secrets & Lies) who is incredibly good here - a single mother looking to start dating in London's Swinging Sixties, even if I understand that only through a passing of the dead man's gun (um, dead woman's dress) can the story make its point. Although what point that might be is a little elusive, though it's an entertaining ride as you try to figure it out. The haunted dress premise is absurd and the film doubles down with absurdist humor. Especially funny are the invasive people in the service industry - the boutique personnel dressed for Tim Burton's funeral, the ridiculous bank managers, the gangster running a washing machine repair shop, the waiter who needs to know you name... I suppose the theme is capitalism and pushing its mechanics to the extreme: The consumer good that kills made in hell's sweatshop, the epic poetry of retail, the fetishization of department store mannequins, HR prying into your darkest dreams, coupon dating, etc. And it's beautiful to look at too, especially the warm tones of Sheila's story. Things look less phantasmagorical in the light of the present day.