Dad turns to daughter and asks, "Are you sure you're ready for this?" Not in a million years would my dad drop me off in a big city on my own that young! But Denmark, you know, bohemians. Paris is Paris and if you look like a model, the sky's the limit for how far you can go. It's the #me too era as well as the era of tall skinny gawky adolescents ruling the fashion world like exotic doe-eyed giraffes. Magical eye-candy meets mean streets in this country-girl-goes-to-the-big-city to strut her stuff in palatial minimalist settings. Welcome to the jungle. The dialog, the Brian Epsteins, the conflicts, the abuse, and the assaults are believable, naturalistic, and unfiltered, choreographed from unusual angles and you-are-right-there cinematography. All is not right in fashion Disneyland for the awkward strangely gorgeous heroine, whose interpretation of the somewhat psychotic lead charactor is so spot on, for all we know she is that person. A person l know well. A child woman who in her eagerness to please and pander to a predatory phantasmagoric industry, is gobbled up like a popcicle on a hot summer day. But who knows, maybe for some ambitious canny dangerous femme fatales, the cost of fame is worth it in the end.
