OPENING CREDITS TO "MANON 70" (1968)

#7: MAKE DRESSING AND UNDRESSING A CROSS BETWEEN ART AND SPORT - YOU NEVER KNOW WHO'S WATCHING.

Since I'm doing multiples from "Manon 70" I thought I would also include the opening credits, as directed by Jean Aurel. I love this one. All that dressing and undressing. There's a voyeuristic pleasure to this sequence, as well as the compelling bustle of being backstage at a fashion show, of course. And then there's a lot of great Sixties fashion to grab your attention, too - with all those (now very obsolete) stockings. Emmanuel Ungaro is credited with doing Catherine Deneuve's clothes for the film, I suspect he did these as well (pretty sure one of the outfits on another model ends up on Deneuve in a later discotheque scene). And the classical guitar is a charming contrast as well. A great sequence to transition the audience out of reality and into the film, imho.



FASHION SHOW FROM "MANON 70" (1968)

#6: CHIRPING BIRDS, LIKE MONEY AND THE COLOR WHITE, MAKE A GREAT NEUTRAL.

From the 1968 film "Manon 70".  Catherine Deneuve's character is taken shopping at a fashion show by one of her rich lovers. Fresh and cerebral. Plus one really has to admire the irony of the late Sixties modeling pose: caught in action yet oddly frozen solid. Emmanuel Ungaro is credited with doing Deneuve's clothes for this film, I suspect he did these for the show as well.

DISCOTHEQUE SCENE FROM "MANON 70" (1968)

# 5:  THE GROOVY SCENE IS ACTUALLY QUITE MATHEMATICAL .



In film as in reality, a good disco scene brings together different atmospheric components to create a whole far more happening than the sum of its parts. Let's do the math for 1968's "Manon 70" :


      trippy, psychedelic dance track

 +   Asian woman in risqué see-through top

 +   woman with a Poodle

 +   jaded French smokers

 +   Catherine Deneuve in Emmanuel Ungaro couture

 +   a Nehru jacket

 +   the intrigued millionaire

 +   whirling, swirling ambiguously same-sexed dance couples
                                                                                        

 =  the happening whole



The song featured in this scene is "New Délire" by Serge Gainsbourg & Michel Colombier, available on the soundtrack album to the film "Manon 70".