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I love that well-established filmmakers are directing commercials. As long as we must be advertised to, why not make the ads interesting and somewhat like short films? I know that’s what Jason Batemen and Will Arnett have said they’re going for with their comedic Orbit commercials, and Frank Miller’s new *Speed Racer *meets Sin City Gucci ad, for which we’ve seen a trailer, appears to be going after the Comic-Con crowd (will there be more designer handbags in San Diego next summer?)
Now **Martin Scorsese **gives us a cool new ad for the Chanel fragrance Bleu, which *The Playlist *likens](http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/08/watch-martin-scorsese-directed-chanel.html) to a Wes Anderson script (specifically the Darjeeling Limited-based shortHotel Chevalier, I assume), but which also reminds me more of Sofia Coppola’s latest, Somewhere. And of course there’s a bit of a *Blow Up *homage in there. Maybe a hint of 8 1/2?
The commercial stars French actor Gaspard Ulliel](Gaspard Ulliel | Moviefone), who you may know best as the young Hannibal Lecter in *Hannibal Rising *or fittingly as fellow Chanel hawker Audrey Tautou’s lost love in A Very Long Engagement. It’s a fast-paced montage set during a press conference as an actor recalls a love affair. Predictably, the soundtrack is The Rolling Stones (with “She Said Yeah.”). Watch it after the jump.Filed under: Trailers and Clips
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