In On the Rocks, Invoice Murray Is the Swimsuit-Carrying King of New York

“Everybody in SoHo attire like this now,” the joke goes. The phrase is often tweeted alongside a photograph of some long-forgotten cultural determine whose model appears to overlap nearly completely with the prevailing advanced-fashion appears to be like of the day. “To make the joke is to announce a deep exhaustion with a lot of menswear’s fixations, alongside a deep familiarity with them,” Max Lakin wrote for this web site in January: a way that, as hilariously because the younger males exterior Aimé Leon Dore or wherever may be dressing, another person had worn their bizarre pants first.

I considered the phrase whereas watching On the Rocks, Sofia Coppola’s mellow new Manhattanite caper. However not as a result of anybody within the movie was sporting Balenciaga or outsized Hawaiian shirts or all Raf Simons all the things. Fairly the other: This being a Sofia Coppola film, everybody in it’s nearly distractingly tasteful. They’re in fastidiously aged classic, and stylish gold jewellery, and soft-shouldered fits. This, after all, is what everyone seems to be SoHo attire like—or at the least used to, after we nonetheless bought dressed.

Who wants a costume shirt?

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On the Rocks is ostensibly about Laura (Rashida Jones), a author and mom annoyed to be doing much more of the latter than the previous. She grows involved that her husband, Dean, may be dishonest on her and—maybe in opposition to her higher judgment—calls in her joyful philanderer of a father to crack the case.

If the movie is unusually bored with Laura’s plight—her issues in love and work, it seems, are principally in her head—that’s as a result of practically all of its sympathy is reserved for her father, who’s performed by Invoice Murray and who spends the film’s 96 minutes giving a masterclass in attraction. His Felix, a raconteur artwork vendor, is somewhat misogynistic, and somewhat extra into sex-heavy evolutionary concept than you’d need your aged father to be. However he’s additionally Invoice Murray, at mainly any second seducing each character and the digicam.

And right here—as a result of it’s set in a pre-pandemic New York, as a result of he’s an artwork vendor, and since that is merely the way it’s performed in Manhattan—Felix does most of his seducing in a go well with “We all the time wished him to really feel subtle and worldly, but additionally nonetheless have that softness and attraction,” costume designer Stacey Battat tells me. Which meant fits: some from Brooks Brothers and a few from Battistoni; a seersucker worn, winningly, with white bucks and a navy wool worn with a T-shirt.