A schoolboy uses his cellphone camera to shoot intimate interviews with people working at a New York fashion house and secretly posts them on the internet. Result: a bitterly funny expose of an industry in crisis, during a week in which an accident on the runway becomes a murder investigation, and denial leads to devastation.
Direction
Potter's fragmented screen-as-canvas formalism.
Acting
Buscemi's bitter photographer steals every frame.
Writing
Monologues that sting like spilled champagne.
Director
Sally Potter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot entirely on a soundstage with green screens; actors never shared physical space, filmed in isolation during 2008.
Prefigured TikTok confession culture by a decade—Potter essentially predicted our entire parasocial economy.
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