Craig Armstrong - Chanel No5 - Baz Luhrmann

In November 2004, Baz Lurhmman premiered his advert for Chanel No 5. The advert which, Lurhmann insists is a short film as he doesn’t do adverts, features Nicole Kidman as a lonely megastar who, maddened by the pressures of fame, impetuously scrambles out of her limo and into a cab where she meets a good looking chap and they drive off. She has a platonic bohemian moment with him on a rooftop, behind an illuminated Chanel logo. "Who are you?" he gasps. "I'm a dancer!" she replies, snuggling up to him with a few razzle-dazzle moves. But then her management turns up and says she must go back. So Nicole dutifully resumes her celebrity vocation, floating up to a red-carpet premiere, surrounded by giant, faintly Stalinesque pictures of herself, while her amour breathes in voiceover about what a precious fleeting moment it was: "Her kiss ... Her smile ... Her perfume."

Craig Armstrong used Claude Debussy’s Clair de Lune for the score. Rearranging it to accommodate the short film’s structure. You can hear his composition on Armstrong’s ‘Film Works’ album.

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