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Lady Blue Shanghai (2010)

Lady Blue Shanghai poster
Directed by
David Lynch
Country
United States
Runtime
16 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman enters her hotel room in Shanghai and finds a handbag she doesn't recognize. The music and objects around her seem to belong to another time, leading her into a strange series of events.

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What happens

Lady Blue Shanghai is a 16-minute Internet promotion short film for Dior written, directed and edited by David Lynch. It stars Marion Cotillard, Gong Tao, Emily Stofle, Cheng Hong, Lu Yong and Nie Fei, with music by Lynch, Dean Hurley, and Nathaniel Shilkret. The film centers on the surreal circumstances surrounding Cotillard's character, who encounters a mysterious Dior handbag and 1920s music as she enters her hotel room in Shanghai. It has been likened thematically to Lynch's 2006 feature film Inland Empire. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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