This is too perfect! On Monday night, Bret Easton Ellis tweeted the following:
‘I think I really, really like this a lot. The Shoes – Time To Dance (Official Video): youtu.be/pt9wnawn7xQ via @youtube’.
Of course, you will totally understand once you have watched the video: Jack Gyllenhaal plays his best cold-blooded killer, Patrick-Bateman-messier-style, in a mini-movie made for the track 'Time to Dance’ by the French band ‘The Shoes’.
The music is your expected club music, with lots of dance-floor-disco rhythms, some cheerleader-lines in the mix and techno-beats turning madly hypnotic, while you are watching disturbing and bloody night club scenes. Gyllenhaal chases his victims as a fencer and kills them in the dark alleys of strip clubs, between his visits to the barber shop or the gym. And The Shoes' playful and dynamic music strangely works very well with the bleak imagery.
I had never heard of this French electro duo, but they have released an album ‘Crack My Bones’ in March 2011, are known for having done a large amount of remixes, and are apparently a hit in the UK. Plus they are apparently well connected to get Gyllenhaal for their video, as well as director Daniel Wolfe, who had already worked with them on 'Stay The Same' as the band explained in an official statement:
'When we released the 'Stay The Same' music video last year with Daniel Wolfe, we were so blown away by his work that we had to bring him back for the 'Time To Dance' video. No other director understood our music like he did. We gave him our track, and today, he gives us the best music video, starring one of our favorite actors, Jake Gyllenhaal. We still can't believe it!'
And with that dark Gyllenhaal character, it’s as violent as a Bret Easton Ellis’s nightmare: