The Netflix brand of unglamorous production design has swept like a plague through contemporary filmmaking. GONE WITH THE WIND are the lushly peach pink palettes coordinated by Technicolor tycoon Natalie Kalmus, or the incredulously fabulous wardrobes of penniless ‘30s shop girls. To take an example at random, the otherwise superbly orchestrated BABYLON (2022) was soaked in a putrid, mustardy colour. As if the tiniest ounce of elegance was to corrupt the film’s frenzied confabulation of Fatty-Arbuckle-era Hollywood, Margot Robbie was also presumably bribed into competing against the Goldwyn Girls for rattiest curly wig ever worn.
"Style IS substance" ... Music to my ears! Thank you, Ms Stunwyck, for the insightful (& delightful) tract!