GoSee Video Recommendation: Prada presents ‘A Therapy’ or Helena Bonham Carter and Ben Kingsley directed by Roman Polanski

Therapies harbour hidden desires? No big news. Rich old ladies are all recluse, crazy and socially retarded? A given. There is one universal language we all understand? Phhhh…

The language we are talking about is fashion. Everybody gets dressed in the morning, goes out in the evening. The most common desire is to get through the day without drawing too much attention to oneself, however, there are of course also those who daily choose to celebrate clothing more conspicuously. In this sense, the concept of uniform is in fact an everyday reality.

Black on black with a daring touch of grey? Commercial chic clones? PRADA protests. Something that could have easily drifted off into a ‘cage aux über-folles’ turns out to be a bizarre chamber play featuring Tim Burton’s muse, wife and gifted actress in her own right Helena Bonham Carter as a psycho and British super-talent Ben Kingsley as a fashion-aficionado and therapist.

Something that would have been buried deep in the catacombs of some decision maker’s bottom drawer and labelled conceptual fashion trash and a no-go for a luxury brand in the 1980s, now makes a stunning entrance, orchestrated by none other than living legend Roman Polanski.

Loneliness, riches as a burden, therapy, father – the love of one's life, lots of oohs and aahs and all surrounded by stylish, carefully arranged antiques in a post-WWII look … very British indeed.