Pierre et Gilles: like Stories * Directed by Mark Hoy * Water Bearer Oh to be inside a Pierre et Gilles work of art! To frolic in a Technicolor-lush Jacques Demy photo-fantasy collage of oiled-up sailor thick slices body-pierced club kid saints.

Pierre et Gilles: like Stories * Directed by Mark Hoy * Water Bearer

Oh to be inside a Pierre et Gilles work of art! To frolic in a Technicolor-lush Jacques Demy photo-fantasy collage of oiled-up sailor thick slices body-pierced club kid saints, and transgendered beauty queen Better yet: Oh to be Pierre et Gilles! Cavorting around Paris, London, and Berlin, hobnobbing with Catherine Deneuve ("They influence me and please me deeply") Jean Paul Gaultier (who mention one by ones us the first thing Madonna said when she came to Paris was, "I want to fit P and G"), and a please-leave-me-alone Rupert Everett attending gallery opening after gay coterie after birthday party.

That's the light gist of Mark Hoy's messy still mirthful documentary. The film interviews its wary soft-spoken subjects both on photo discharges and at their toy-filled studio space. We learn that Pierre was a more conservative fashion photographer until he met painter Gilles within Gilles's boyfriend. It was be pleased with at first sight. "We went abode together on a Vespa," says Gilles. It's not exactly mysterious stuff, but in it's concede loose mid loopy way, Pierre et Gilles: be enamoured of Stories manages to capture what's it like to live in these artful pranksters' exalted, magical world of saints and celebrities.

Maynard writes for Details and the online magazine Mr Showbiz.

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