Love or hate Cate Blanchett, but can all of us admit that the red carpet is a more interesting place because of her? I generally love Cate’s ability to make strange and avant-garde fashion work. This is not really one of those times. Cate attended the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of her film Manifesto last night. She wore this Maison Valentino dress which… is a sack-dress. I think it qualifies. It’s shapeless. It doesn’t show off her figure in the least. The high-neck adds to the sack-ness. I think I sort of understand what she was attempting here, but this Valentino doesn’t get it done whatsoever. It ages her, frankly. She looks like a little old lady who buys clothes according to how much they cover up her neck. It’s weird because from the neck up, she looks the same: lovely, great skin, cute haircut.

As for this film… I’ll let Deadline explain it:

FilmRise has acquired North American distribution rights to Manifesto, the Julian Rosefeldt film that just bowed at the Sundance Film Festival. A mid-2017 release date is in the works, and the film will land on Amazon Prime Video later this year.

Blanchett plays 13 separate characters —from an anchorwoman to a homeless man—performing monologues that incorporate manifestos from 20th century art movements. Before it was a feature film, Rosefeldt debuted the project at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image as an art installation, where various characters and scenes were simultaneously displayed on 13 screens.

[From Deadline]

That sounds like a cool art project/installation. Considering it was an Aussie-based art installation, I bet that’s why Cate did it. She’ll do anything for Australian artists.

Cate was in New York for months working on the Broadway production of The Present. I kind of wonder if she’s going to stick around New York for the Met Gala next Monday. Wouldn’t that be great?

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