Starring American actress Elle Fanning – alongside a cast including top models Karen Elson, Caroline Murphy, and Lara Stone – Suddenly Next Summer, Miu Miu’s Spring/Summer 2017 advertising campaign video by Alisdair McLellan, imagines a group of friends on a relaxed and playful day along the beaches of California.
Opening to the swinging sounds of big band jazz, the film is an unfiltered dose of enthusiasm and joy as seen through the stylistic lens of home movies and mid-century newsreels. Borrowed from a 1940 British Pathé story on bathing costumes, the narrator, with a voice of dry enthusiasm, offers up commentary that is somehow both anachronistic and current: it’s all “very tasteful, very neat…..ooooh, very chic!”.