Oh Michelle Williams. If the pixie-ish blonde actress was alive back in the 1960s, she would likely have been a muse to French New Wave filmmakers François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard — much like equally pixie-ish, short-haired ’60s ingenue Jean Seberg.
Alas, we’ll have to make do with Williams being another kind of New Wave muse — ’80s-esque New Wave, that is, in the video for indie-pop shoegaze band Wild Nothing’s dreamy tune “Paradise.”
Check out the video below, and see Williams — wearing hipster-cool dark sunglasses, her bangs fluffed up into a sideways Parisian swoop — look out a plane window, futz with a pink cassette player, and stare and smile at waterfalls. READ FULL STORY »
