From Tuesday 12 September, Primaphila, a live-action film starring a Mattel designer doll, will be available on Sky. Directed by Greta Gerwig and co-written with her partner Noah Baumbach, the funny pink art film pokes fun at stereotypes and patriarchy.
“You make me spin around like a doll,” Patty Pravo sang. However, Mattel’s fashion doll, which went on sale on March 9, 1959, changed the world and the economy. So transfiguring Barbie in a movie, even with real actors, can be as difficult as making Barolo ragu. However, the film was a box office success. And the film is now available from Tuesday, September 12, 2023. Of course, many big-screen Muppet ideas have gone under the bridge, from the first project in 2008 to the film directed by Greta Gerwig (Small woman; Lady Bird) saw the light. As we know, there are very few certainties in life, namely death, mosquitoes in summer and taxes. However, we think this is the best cinematic Barbie in the worst of all possible worlds.
Barbie, plot of the film
All Barbies in the world are beautiful. Especially if they tautologically live in Barbieland. A place where today is the most beautiful day in the world, the same as it was yesterday and will be tomorrow. A time marked by an endless giant party with all the Barbies, decorated with prepared choreographies and a song written especially for this purpose. “How cool,” as Ken (Ryan Gosling), the eternally sociable man with a standard-bellied turtle and the beach for a friend, commented on this fine tome. It’s always girls day in this sweet middle ground. Especially for Stereotypical Barbie (Margot Robbie), toys without quality, excluding President Barbie, Supreme Court Judge Barbie, Nobel Barbie and so on and so forth. But the unexpected, like Elio’s tamarro around the corner and intense stories, Shpalman it is always hidden. Just think about death, and the Valley of the Dolls will fall apart. The doll has flat feet (what horror!) and even cellulite (horror multiplied to the nth degree!). Goodbye perfection. The only path to salvation is a journey to discover reality, perhaps in the company of the imperishable Ken. Except that the globe is a society of men and for men. So could a fashion doll be a game changer?
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From 2001: A Space Odyssey To Matrix
Quoting each other is very helpful if you are aware of the level of the person you are attracting. And Greta Gerwig and her partner Noah Baumbach (Marriage History; White noise) I know a lot about this, for a really long time. Postmodernists lovingly ridicule the opening sequence from the very beginning 2001: A Space Odyssey The action takes place in the African savannah. Dolls have been around since time immemorial, from Voodoo to the Kachina Indians. And the interplay of mirrors and references between hominids, little girls and toys acts like drops of Angostura in a Negroni cocktail. Tributes are also very appreciated and fun. Matrix with a weapon of mass seduction represented by a 12cm heel contrasting with a Birkenstock Arizona shoe in brown leather, as well as a choice between a red and blue pill. But cinematic Barbie also happily plunders all the films of Jacques Demy (most notably the delightful Les Parapluis de Cherbourg), Saturday Night Fever (1977)e Lubricant – Brillantinea (1978), Luxurious women (1935), The Wizard of Oz (1939), Oklahoma! (1955), red shoes (1948), American in Paris (1951), Singing in the raina (1952), All That Jazz – Let The Show Begina (1979) and last but not least: The Truman Show (1995). The many quotes and tributes make the film even more appetizing than cod in a salad.
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Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling: Barbie and Ken to the Rescue
It’s a pity for the beautiful and equally talented Anne Hathaway and Gal Gadot. But Barbie in the cinema could only transform into Margot Robbie. Even when he appears at the beginning of the film, he is as dominant and gigantic as the protagonist of a legendary B-movie. Attack of the 50 Foot Womann. The Australian star won the game-match-match. As in underrated Babylon, the main character cries bitter tears, and we cry with her. Only a real actress can pretend to be taking a shower or drinking a soft drink and still be credible, like David Hemmings in the imaginary tennis match that ends it. Explode Michelangelo Antonioni. If Roland Barthes were still alive, he would most likely devote a chapter to Myths of today onto the blonde diva’s face, just like he did with Greta Garbo. So much so that when Barbie, in a self-esteem crisis, calls herself ugly, a voiceover (in the original version, Helen Mirren’s voice) emphasizes how implausible this statement is if it applies to the character played by Margot. Robbie. And pairing with Ryan Gosling works as well as strawberries and champagne. No stranger to playing the role of a dumb boy-toy, the Canadian actor and musician entertains and intrigues. His crazy association of patriarchy with his passion for horses (also, the horses in Barbie are reminiscent of Eadweard Muybridge’s photographs of Sally Gardner at a Gallop, quoted in Nope) refers to the explosive and surreal comedy Monty Python. It’s also worth mentioning Michael Cera. In the form of Allan, a man who is of less importance in Barbie’s cosmogony than the Indian gods. Black Eyed Peas (as Club Dogo sang in the song) Hello, really).
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“Life is too important to be taken seriously,” wrote Oscar Wilde. Therefore, director Greta Gerwig chooses the path of ease to lead us to the palace of awareness, given that she has two lives to tell: the life Barbieland, where women and royalty rule, where man is lord and master. Of course, this is an operation, not without some cunning. Mattel rips its clothes, self-flagellates, and presents itself through a group of vapid and arrogant executives (and Will Ferrell is hilarious as the company’s CEO). But the message gets through to everyone. We laugh at the thought of Barbie Proust, lost in madeleines and clearly not bought by anyone, and we reflect on the fact that strange Barbie has the right answers. And the dazzling epiphany of the color pink (it goes well with everything, after all) makes even the most didactic and repetitive episodes enjoyable and witty. And also because this is not a cinematic transfer of such a milestone of feminism as Second sex Simone De Beauvoir, and the film adaptation of the best-selling and most famous fashion doll in the world. Without excessive ambitions, Barbie plays with style, glamor and irony with clichés. A film that manages to give soul to the plastic and even some of the marketing. And between jokes, jokes, sight gags, one-liners, commercials, top-notch musical numbers and slippers with marabou feathers, the feature film offers food for thought about the society we live in, about masculinity and femininity. In short, we don’t think we could ask for more from a work starring a toy doll.
