Chanel No. 5 : Audrey Tautou and Travis Davenport by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

[*Kristina*]

Audrey

She is so lovely and beautiful, a wonderful choice for Chanel No.5. She's so much more fresh and interesting than Nicole Kidman. I can't wait to see this!

[Street_a_Licious]

it's May 5th already!

[eternitygoddess]

I read in the Audrey Tautou thread that the commercial has been posted on Chanel's website.

Update: go to chaneln5.com. You can view the film there.

[eternitygoddess]

After watching the commercial, I'm disappointed. It's not grand or fantastical. I agree with FrenchCactus's assessment of it as "Amelie takes the train to Turkey."

The potential of exotic Istanbul is there; with a few edits, it could've been great. I prefer Nicole Kidman's No. 5 commercial.

[Street_a_Licious]

meh

it's less "Amelie takes the train to Turkey" and more "Travis in: Orient Express Psycho Killer". am i the only one who gets his psycho killer look? i like him as a model (he's a skater, i can't help it) but he fails at portraying "love" and "passion" and "infatuation", but basically skips to "crazy obsession".

he creeps me out during his scenes. shame.

there's no real "joie de vivre" portrayed. i don't want to buy myself into the fantasy of sleeping in a noisy train for too long, with a cute, but potentially crazy stalker outside my compartment!

the progression of the 2 minute version creeps along, we spend TOO MUCH TIME in Audrey's compartment. instead we should have had her exploring places. making stops.

Nicole's ad has that gorgeous soundtrack, the starstruck love story. Kiera's Coco Mademoiselle ad, i don't know, i didn't want it to end! she was really having fun, a carefree spirit with a gorgeous apartment. the recent Miss Dior Cherie ad, so much fun! Flora by Gucci, partially strange, but i love the etheral scene, the airiness of everything.

THOSE are fantasies people would want to buy themselves into. not cute crazy person on the Orient Express.

[simons]

^i agree with you. the cinematography was great, its his style, but the story did not play out right and maybe a different male model would have been better. still pretty to look at though.. the commercial that is.

[Mchunu]

now we just have to get it on youtube, because i don't have the app. to watch it on my schools' computer

[Bengt]

^ I tried uploading but YouTube won't convert! Eeeek..

[birdyandme]

If we're talking luxury and fantasy of Chanel no.5 then, of course, Baz Luhrman's film is better.
But I think the idea of this one is just the fragrance itself. I expected nothing more or less than what Jeunet delivered. It's very him, and I love it.
He incorporated the scent well, which I imagine is pretty difficult, especially if you want to be more original than a man stopping in his tracks as an attractive model passes him by.

[hautechild]

I like it as a piece of film, although the fragrance does seem kind of incongruous in the context of the ad. But I always felt that the Baz Luhrman one was a bit cheesy, so I can't say that I prefer it.

[dumbfairy]

I just watched it on my msn home page. I don't really understand it. At more than one point,I thought he was going to burst into her room and rape her, that's the feeling I got from it anyway. Audrey looks fantastic, as does the whole advert really, but I just don't understand the concept of it.

*edits*

And also at more than one point I expected Harry Potter to appear, and Dementors too, especially the shot of the train going over the bridge

[Pomeline]

Mhmm I'm a bit disappointed. The film is beautiful but a little annoying

However I can't stop watching the site chaneln5.com ! Perfect !!!

[kuli_trendy]

i have seen it on youtube. beautiful cinematography and reminds me with hogwarts express. but i just can't feel it's chanel parfume!

[Mirik]

Harper's Bazaar Russia May 2009
scanned by Neyasnii shepot

[fiqary]

Here it is from youtube:

[youtube]6ljQDJ4EILc[/youtube]

Longer version of the making:

[youtube]kzYFQXmGh1k[/youtube]

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