Episode 9: Gia

Is it a movie about the 1970s and 1980s fashion scene if there’s no fashion in it? Rena and Sara are varying degrees of annoyed at this biopic about legendary supermodel Gia Carangi, whose meteoric rise and devastating fall in the modelling industry is kind of documented in this film. Who’s the worse pastiche character – the grubby modelling agency owner or the makeup artist, who came straight to this set from a Newport News catalog shoot? Why can’t we get a period-accurate needle drop in this film? Where are we and when are we? So many questions, so few answers, including whether or not it’s fair to criticize any art if you haven’t made any. 

Gia stars Angelina Jolie, the legendary Faye Dunaway, Elizabeth Mitchell, Mercedes Ruehl, and Eric Michael Cole, and was directed by Michael Cristofer, and written by Cristofer and Jay McInerney.

 

Sources

Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia by Stephen Fried

Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women by Michael Gross

The C Word episode: Gia

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