I recently saw Paul Thomas Anderson's latest, The Master, and while I liked rather than loved it, there were three things that have really stuck with me; Joaquin Pheonix's wardrobe, his performance and the scenes of the wake of a ship that were interspersed throughout the film.
As a veteran of the Navy following World War II Pheonix is a drifter, and alcoholic, who falls in with a spiritual leader / founder of a cult that isn't Scientology played by Phillip Seymour Hoffman. In the same way that Pheonix drifts, his clothes appear to swim around his body, they fit him but they billow perfectly.
Congratulations to the masterful Mark Bridges (Costume Designers on all of Anderson's films to date), while some of the Boogie Nights outfits will go down as classics, this wardrobe really haunts me.
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