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Instants precieux

Posted by Robin on 19 October 2010 15 Comments

Actress Penelope Cruz for Lancôme Trésor.

Filed Under: perfume in the news
Tagged With: lancome, video

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  1. dee says:
    19 October 2010 at 12:04 pm

    Penelope is such a talented actress; but this is so cheesy even she can’t pull it off. Oh dear.

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    • Robin says:
      19 October 2010 at 12:30 pm

      I like Penelope Cruz better than Kate Winslet, but IMHO Kate Winslet is a better fit for this sort of thing.

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      • dee says:
        19 October 2010 at 12:33 pm

        Haha, yeah, the look of dreamy surprise isn’t P’s forte 🙂

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  2. Dolly2 says:
    19 October 2010 at 1:19 pm

    PC is too strong to pull off this kind of fluff.

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    • Robin says:
      19 October 2010 at 2:47 pm

      Yeah.

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  3. AnnS says:
    19 October 2010 at 2:23 pm

    Both myself and my husband have grown-up crushes on Penelope Cruz. We love her passionate character in “Vicki Christina Barcelona”. She is a bit smoldering for Tresor.

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    • Robin says:
      19 October 2010 at 2:48 pm

      Exactly. If they’re going to pay her fee, they ought to let her smolder instead of simper.

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      • AnnS says:
        19 October 2010 at 2:52 pm

        Indeed.

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    • dee says:
      19 October 2010 at 6:33 pm

      I love that movie Ann!

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  4. RusticDove says:
    19 October 2010 at 2:56 pm

    Good lawd that was corny! The way the music swelled as she turned, and ever so slowly her expression changed from disappointment to unbridled joy. Oy. It was too much for me, & I’m a hopeless romantic! LOL

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  5. Joe says:
    19 October 2010 at 3:04 pm

    Eh. Typical perfume ad to me. I like Winslet and Cruz, but didn’t know they had replaced Winslet as the Tresor woman.

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  6. ceelouise says:
    19 October 2010 at 3:27 pm

    Oh no! I laughed all the way through this – twice. But Cruz is so beautiful. I’ve admired her since I saw her interviewed on Charlie Rose with Almodavar.

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  7. LaMaroc says:
    19 October 2010 at 4:06 pm

    Isn’t this the same music they used for the Kate Winslet commercial? Too soap opera-y for me. And I love Penelope Cruz but this commercial could be vastly improved if that mysterious man was Javier Bardem. *swoon*

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  8. nozknoz says:
    19 October 2010 at 11:10 pm

    Haven’t seen the Kate Winslet version, but I ran across the original Isabella Rossellini last weekend – much, much better than this one. It might have had the same music, too…

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  9. astrorainfall says:
    24 October 2010 at 12:51 am

    Hmm cheese central indeed, the retro dated look of this ad was surprising….shouldn’t they try to update it? Whatever it is, Penelope Cruz is as gorgeous as ever…

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