MIKIMOTO, proud patron and sponsor of the McDermott & McGough film “Mean to Me” starring Agyness Deyn and Linus Roache.
McDermott & McGough are pleased to announce Mean To Me, their first foray into scripted, motion picture filmmaking. The film, written and directed by Peter McGough, stars actor Linus Roache and British supermodel Agyness Deyn in her acting debut. The thirteen minute art film, sponsored by GUERLAIN and MIKIMOTO, was shown at Galerie Jerome de Noirmont in Paris. The film will also be screened at the Centres Pomidou during their film festival series September 24th through 26th.
The period piece chronicles the end of an affair in 1930s Manhattan, as a glamorous courtesan (Deyn) discovers that her aristocratic British lover, Walter (Roache), intends to marry a wealthy heiress in order to "stay afloat" in the depths of the Depression. As the story develops, it is clear that her past is linked to a subordinate social class, while Walter maintains an emotionally abusive and patrician sensibility. At once vulnerable and despairing, the mistress is unraveled not by heartbreak, but by the terror of returning to a life burdened by destitution.
In an effort to augment the highly stylized 1930s era, designer Zac Posen further developed the piece’s period sensibilities by selecting gowns from his archive. MIKIMOTO cultured pearls helped to reflect the psychological denouement of the woman, which transitions from traditional white pearls to luminescent Black Sea pearls as the character’s emotional state becomes more unhinged.
“A film noir drenched in period glamour…” – Darrell Hartman, Style.com “Agyness Deyn is the next Faye Dunaway!” – George Wayne, Vanity Fair “With its masterful attention to detail, the film, like McGough’s works of art, authentically transports you... you are ensconced in the 1930s, inhabiting that world.” – Jeffrey Podolsky, Wall Street Journal “A visually sumptuous film noir.” – Jean Nathan, New York Times T Magazine “Aesthetically speaking Mean to Me is a studiously detailed, thirteen minute love letter to the Deco Era.” –Lesley Blume, Huffington Post
