Watch the Miu Miu short film, Its Getting Late, featuring Zola Jesus performing Ixode as herself, Patricia Clarkson, Aubrey Plaza, Gemma Arterton, and Rinko Kikuchi.
In the translucent LA dusk we discover four women living very different lives – a high-flying professional in her elegant glass office, a mother bathing her daughter, a chic blogger with her laptop and a film editor working with old movie clips in a screening room. The camera follows each as they wind down their working days, their four stories weaving together as each prepares for their evening.
Its Getting Late is the fourth film in a series of short films, The Miu Miu Womens Tales, by
leading female directors. Each film explores the feminine love affair with Miu Miu through the
lens of their diverse sensibilities. Its Getting Late is an entrancing study of the ritual of getting
ready, shot by Iranian-American screenwriter and director, Massy Tadjedin, with a stellar international cast including Gemma Arterton, Patricia Clarkson, Rinko Kikuchi and Aubrey
Plaza, culminating in a gripping cameo performance by rising songstress, Zola Jesus. Tadjedin, whose directorial debut starred Keira Knightley and Eva Mendes, was inspired by the common passage of physical and spiritual transformation when moving between the spheres of day and night.
Miu Miu is a distinctly feminine brand and one distinctively feminine ritual we all still make
time for is getting ready. We make our faces, our suits, our selves just a little more ready for
wherever it is were going. Fashion is never just the clothes. Its our mood, our excitement for
something, our expectations, our attitudes, our outlooks. Managing those is often what getting
ready is all about and thats what our short tries to capture. Massy Tadjedin
The four women quietly take part in their private acts of preparation, delicately slipping a silk
blouse from its tissue, stepping into high heels, applying make up, zipping up a dress. But the transformation is also psychological, as they take stock of the day and mentally prepare for the evening ahead. A fifth woman, Zola Jesus, is the calm counterpoint, sitting quietly in her changing room at a famous club, ironically the only woman not changing at all. She will be the thread that binds the women together, when in the final scenes they arrive one by one, all by different means, at her electrifying performance – suggesting perhaps they have more in common than we might have believed.
The Miu Miu WOMENS TALES #4
Première: August 30, 2012 – Venice Days – Venice
Title: Its Getting Late
Director: Massy Tadjedin
Countries: Italy, uSA
Production Companies: Hi! Production, Green Dot Films
Executive producers: Max Brun, Rich Pring, Darren Foldes
Director of Photography: Jason McCormick
Actresses:
(in order of appearance)
Patricia Clarkson (Lou), Rinko Kikuchi (Anna), Gemma Arterton (Sarah), Aubrey Plaza (Rose) and Zola Jesus (Herself)
Music: Zola Jesus
Songs: Ixode and Vessel
Remixed by Clint Mansell
Hair: Patricia Neal
Make up: Paula Jane Hamilton