Synopsis
During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.
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Cast
- Marcello MastroianniSergei (Sergio)
- Sophia LorenIsabella de la Fontaine
- Jean-Pierre CasselOlivier de la Fontaine
- Kim BasingerKitty Potter
- Chiara MastroianniSophie Choiset
- Stephen ReaMilo O'Brannigan
- Anouk AiméeSimone Lowenthal
- Rupert EverettJack Lowenthal
- Rossy de PalmaPilar
- Tara LeonKiki Simpson
Recommendations
- 63
Chicago Sun-Times
The result is a little like a comedy crossed with a home movie. It is also, like many home movies, somewhat rambling, and overly dependent on knowing the names of all the players. - 63
ReelViews
Ready to Wear doesn't have enough substance to justify its length, nor does it possess enough raw humor to leaven the flat spots. The jokes are inconsistently funny, with some being worth giggles, some eliciting hearty chuckles, and some prompting little more than shrugs. - 60
Newsweek
Ready to Wear is all appetizers: the main course never arrives. Still, the critical savagery puzzles me. Altman's movie may be indefensible, but it's not unenjoyable. The fun of it is entirely superficial, like skimming a gossip column. - 50
Variety
While the surfaces, backgrounds and sense of constant motion are authentic to their tinselly cores, what goes on among the fictional participants resembles gag-reliant improv routines that haven’t been entirely worked out. - 42
Entertainment Weekly
Ready to Wear is messy and vaguely nasty -- a blur with attitude. - 40
Austin Chronicle
Ready to Wear is to filmmaking what paper dresses were to fashion -- thin, trendy, and disposable. - 30
The New York Times
This time Mr. Altman, such a stunningly intuitive portraitist when he truly plumbs the mysteries that guide his characters, works without inventiveness and with glaring nonchalance. - 30
Washington Post
The picture is not a social satire. It’s a mess.
