Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
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Gero von BoehmForgatókönyvíró:
Gero von BoehmOperatőr:
Sven Jakob-EngelmannSzereplők:
Charlotte Rampling, Isabella Rossellini, Catherine Deneuve, Grace Jones, Marianne Faithfull, Claudia Schiffer, Anna Wintour, Helmut Newton (a. f.)Tartalmak(1)
One of the great masters of photography, Helmut Newton made a name for himself exploring the female form, and his cult status continues long after his tragic death in a Los Angeles car crash in 2004. Newton worked around the globe, from Singapore to Australia to Paris to Los Angeles, but Weimar Germany was the visual hallmark of his work. Newton's unique and striking way of depicting women has always posed the question: did he empower his subjects or treat them as sexual objects? (Cinema Mondo)
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The questioning of Newton's method is very cautious in this documentary, also because primarily the "victims of his camera" speak. Nevertheless, thanks to decent dramaturgy and a good choice of talking heads, there is certain space to take a polemical position. Gero von Boehm admires what Newton embodies, but that doesn't mean that this documentary amounts to just blind adoration. In fact, it does not force anyone to like the main actor and allows him to be perceived as a stubborn child who battles with machismo and subversion. The result is not necessarily sympathy, but definitely a passion for a person who did not consider himself an artist, yet with his photos he significantly inscribed himself in the pop-cultural memory of the 20th century.
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