6.9

Valentino: The Last Emperor

2008, USA

• Actors: Valentino, Giancarlo Giammetti, Nati Abascal, Giorgio Armani, Jeannie Becker, Matthew Broderick, Michael Caine, Joan Collins, Alessandra Facchinetti, Dante Ferretti, Tom Ford, Anne Hathaway, Jacqueline Kennedy, Karl Lagerfeld, Matteo Marzotto, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sarah Jessica Parker, Claudia Schiffer, Meryl Streep, André Leon Talley, Uma Thurman, Donatella Versace, Diane von Fürstenberg, Alek Wek, Anna Wintour
• Genre: Documentary
• Director(s): Matt Tyrnauer
• Available languages:
  • Italian Italian.

A story of friendship, a retrospective, and a look at haute couture as business: we watch Valentino Garavani (1932- ) and partner Giancarlo Giammetti from preparation for the 2006 Spring/Summer Collection in Paris to a July 2007 retrospective of Valentino's 45-year career, which included dressing Jacqueline Kennedy. The film documents a year of work, shows, business changes, and decisions. We follow a creation from sketch to runway: he's always in pursuit of beauty. We're in Paris, Rome, and Venice. He receives the French Legion of Honor medal; his acceptance speech brings tears. Reporters ask when he'll retire. Is the Roman retrospective his career's finale? Cue Puccini.

  6.7

The Devil Wears Prada

2005, USA

• Actors: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker, Adrian Grenier, Tracie Thoms, Rich Sommer, Daniel Sunjata, David Marshall Grant, James Naughton, Tibor Feldman, Rebecca Mader, Jimena Hoyos, Gisele Bündchen, George C. Wolfe, John Rothman, Stephanie Szostak, Colleen Dengel, Suzanne Dengel, Heidi Klum, Valentino, Bridget Hall, Ines Rivero, Alyssa Sutherland, Robert Verdi, Paul Keany, David Callegati, Rori Cannon, Stan Newman
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Director(s): David Frankel
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In New York, the simple and naive just-graduated in journalism Andrea Sachs is hired to work as the second assistant of the powerful and sophisticated Miranda Priestly, the ruthless and merciless executive of the Runway fashion magazine. Andrea dreams to become a journalist and faces the opportunity as a temporary professional challenge. The first assistant Emily advises Andrea about the behavior and preferences of their cruel boss, and the stylist Nigel helps Andrea to dress more adequately for the environment. Andrea changes her attitude and behavior, affecting her private life and the relationship with her boyfriend Nate, her family and friends. In the end, Andrea learns that life is made of choices.