Mother, May I?
André Saraiva's The Shoe, a short film about sex and penny loafers that stars his girlfriend, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, comes in two versions: one that's more or less PG-rated, one that isn't. He screened both of them last night at the Standard, the idea being that Annabelle's mom would stay for just the first one. But Ann Dexter-Jones was having none of it.
"Annabelle was worried that I'd be embarrassed, but I told her that I'd like to see it," Dexter-Jones said as she emerged from the third-floor screening room. "She was acting, and I think she's a great actress. It wasn't like I was a Peeping Tom. I wouldn't be sneaking in if she was with a boyfriend!"
That, however, is pretty much what Saraiva's camera does, in a scene in which Dexter-Jones the younger strips down all the way and goes to bed, mid-day, with a leather-jacketed skateboard flaneur played by Leo Fitzpatrick. Her conquest then steals a pair of J.M. Weston slip-ons from her apartment, an act of petty larceny that was popular in the eighties among a certain breed of hip Parisian. (The French shoemaker commissioned the film, which was co-scripted by Olivier Zahm and has cameos from Josephine de la Baume and Poppy Delevingne.) Things go downhill, humorously, from there.
After the second screening, the party moved upstairs to Le Bain, where Saraiva told Style.com between sips of something or other that we could expect his New York branch of Le Baron to open in September. As for the sex scene: "It's very French—smoke cigarettes and get naked," Saraiva said. And Mom's take? "I trust Annabelle," Ann Dexter-Jones emphasized. "And I'm very fond of André."
—Darrell Hartman
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