Brad Pitt has electric fireworks with Penelope Cruz in a sizzling new commercial for French fashion house Chanel that was shared on Tuesday.
The two A-list stars are seen looking their best at an exclusive Parisian restaurant called La Belle Epoque, a period in European history generally considered to have begun around 1871-1880 and ended with the outbreak of World War I. in 1914. They stare at each other with longing in their eyes as they are interrupted by a young waitress.
Brad, 60, smolders in a black jacket and sweater over a crisp shirt. His hair was styled to look every inch the Hollywood movie star.
Cruz, 49, is a sex nut with her jet-black hair down and deep black eyeliner, as she does in a black suit.
The match seems made in heaven in the black and white commercial that is sure to become an instant classic. The clip is directed by Inez and Vinoodh.
Brad Pitt has electric fireworks with Penelope Cruz in a sizzling new commercial for French fashion house Chanel that was shared on Tuesday.
Cruz is a sexual marvel with her jet black hair down and deep black eyeliner, as she does in a black suit.
They are first seen in a car while heading to the restaurant at night. Brad is in the driver’s seat of the sports car as there is some sexual tension between them.
The Oscar-winning diva asks Brad what she should order for dinner, he says he doesn’t know.
But then he says that a steak sounds like a good idea.
While at the restaurant, he says they should have Chateaubriand, so he orders two. They both order the steak medium rare and ask for it to be “hot.”
—What time did you leave for Monte Carlo yesterday? asks the Spanish mermaid.
The waitress, played by Rianne Van Rompaey, seems irritated when she interrupts to ask if they want starters, but they both say no.
‘I think she’s angry with us. “She’s definitely not happy,” she says after the waitress walks away from her.
‘Do you want us to make her happy?’ —Cruz coos. She has her black Chanel bag on the table between them.
The two A-list stars are seen looking their best at an exclusive Parisian restaurant as they stare at each other with longing in their eyes while being interrupted by a young waitress.
While at the restaurant, he says they should have Chateaubriand, so he orders two. They both order the steak medium rare.
The waitress seems irritated when she interrupts to ask if they want starters, they both say no. ‘I think she’s angry with us. She’s definitely not happy,” she says after the waitress walks away from her. ‘Do you want us to make her happy?’ She coos at Cruz, who has a black Chanel bag on the table.
He casts a dreamy look at his date as if he wanted to be alone with her.
Before dinner, the two are seen in a car heading towards the restaurant while chatting.
Then he asks the waitress if they have rooms available at the hotel where the restaurant is located: ‘Excuse me. Sorry, do you have any rooms available? Cruz asks.
It is implied that they will have sex after dinner.
The couple is also seen dressed in black as they walk on the beach while looking sexy at each other.
The short film was made to open Chanel’s Fall-Winter 2024-25 Ready to Wear show.
It is a tribute to the film A Man and a Woman by French director Claude Lelouch. The short film aims to capture “the beginning of a love story in Deauville, a place dear to the House and the inspiration behind the collection imagined by Virginie Viard.”
Pitt has worked with Cruz’s husband, Javier Bardem. Javier now stars in Pitt’s untitled project about Formula One racing.
Brad smolders in a black jacket and sweater over a crisp shirt as they walk on the beach.
Beach scenes flash as the two walk side by side and appear to be in love with each other, although no contact is actually seen.
There is a dramatic tension between them as if they were a couple but something is not revealed yet.
They walk together through a building that leads them to the sandy beach.
Vogue helped explain more about this short film.
The clip is based on the classic 1966 film A Man and a Woman. In that French film the protagonists are Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant.
They play two widowed parents who meet at their children’s boarding school. They soon discover that they feel a mutual attraction.
Chanel’s brief tribute recreates the scene in which the two sit opposite each other in the restaurant of a Deauville hotel.
In the original scene, director Claude Lelouch placed a purse, Aimée’s Chanel bag, on the table between them.
This happens again in the Pitt/Cruz film.
In the original Lelouch film, Trintignant asks about the bedroom, but here Cruz does, empowering the woman as she takes the first step into the bedroom.
As Inez & Vinoodh explained: “The complicity between the two women, which is a central theme in everything we do for Chanel, encourages Penelope to make the decision to take the first step.”