“The Modelizer” feels like a sketchbook version of the movie it could, or should, have been. The film’s attitude toward the demimonde of Hong Kong sugar daddies and the models who prete…
,” you tend to assume certain things about your protagonist: that he’ll be a smooth-talking pricelessly well-dressed cad, one who values women too much for certain assets and not enough for others , and that the film will be engineered to give him a comeuppance. All that is true of “The Modelizer.”
Shawn is handsome and charming, but his defining quality is his sleek fortysomething-yet-boyish floppy-haired metrosexual impeccability. We can see that he might be a catch under any circumstances, but the real reason he has so many women to choose from is that Hong Kong, as the film portrays it, is now the sort of glitzy brand mecca to which fashion models flock as if they were aspiring starlets arriving in Los Angeles in the ’40s.
Mann, a good actor, has a clear idea of how he’s going to play Shawn: as an aging party boy who knows all the angles yet has remained weirdly naïve, sealed into his libidinous bubble of crazy rich privilege. He’s got a girlfriend who wants to marry him , as well as a different cover-girl paramour every night, and he acts as if this were all his by divine right. At the nightclub he owns, he celebrates his birthday once a week, guzzling champagne until 4:00 a.m.
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