Lady Blue Shanghai

Lady Blue Shanghai is a 16-minute internet promotion motion picture for Dior starring Marion Cotillard, Gong Tao, Emily Stofle, Cheng Hong, Lu Yong and Nie Fei. It was written, directed and edited by David Lynch, with music by David Lynch, Dean Hurley, and Nathaniel Shilkret. There are prominent dreamlike effects and special attention to background music, as is common in Lynch films. The film centers on the circumstances leading to Cotillard hearing 1920s music and seeing the mysterious appearance, with special effects using smoke, of a Dior handbag as she enters her hotel room in Shanghai.... The motion picture was no longer viewable from the Dior website as of October 2010, but at that time was viewable, in two parts, on YouTube. Cotillard, whose character is not given a name in the film, enters her Shanghai hotel room at night. As she nears her room she hears a 1920s tango, which, as she opens her hotel room door, she sees is coming from an old 78 rpm record playing on a vintage record player. She stops the music, and instantly an expensive Dior bag appears in the room in a puff of smoke. In a panic, she calls the front desk to say that someone is in her room.
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