Love, Cecil

Name: Love, Cecil
Genre: Documentary
Released: June 29, 2018
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 63
Cast: Cecil Beaton, David Bailey, David Hockney, Hamish Bowles, Isaac Mizrahi

2018

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Zeitgeist Films | Release Date: June 29, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Cecil Beaton, David Bailey, David Hockney, Hamish Bowles, Isaac Mizrahi, Leslie Caron, Manolo Blahnik, Nicky Haslam, Peter Eyre, Philippe Garner, Ray Gurton, Rupert Everett, Susanna Brown

Summary: Oscar®-winning set and costume designer, photographer, writer and painter Cecil Beaton was not only a dazzling chronicler, but an arbiter of his time. From the Bright Young Things to the front lines of war to the international belle monde and the pages of Vogue and then onto the Queen’s official photographer, Beaton embodied the culturalOscar®-winning set and costume designer, photographer, writer and painter Cecil Beaton was not only a dazzling chronicler, but an arbiter of his time. From the Bright Young Things to the front lines of war to the international belle monde and the pages of Vogue and then onto the Queen’s official photographer, Beaton embodied the cultural and political changes of the twentieth century. In this tender portrait, director Lisa Immordino Vreeland (Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel, Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict) blends archival footage and photographs with voice over of Beaton’s famed diaries to capture his legacy as a complex and unique creative force. [Zeitgeist Films]… Expand

Director: Lisa Immordino Vreeland

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 98 min

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Jim Slotek

Jun 28, 2018

You can’t come away from Love, Cecil without appreciating how much of Beaton's aesthetic outlived him. Read full review

Natalia Winkelman

Jun 28, 2018

The film itself acts as a diary-scrapbook of sorts, an abbreviated anthology of Beaton’s greatest artistic hits and the romantic vision that conceived them. Read full review

David Noh

Jun 28, 2018

You come away from the film feeling that Cecil Beaton represented the very essence of the fashion business, which continues to celebrate, be inspired by and imitate his huge legacy: absolutely exquisite and impeccable on the surface, often hiding a much darker and uglier reality. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Jun 28, 2018

The quirks of Beaton’s personality — his cultivation of enemies and frustrated romanticism, among them — are finally not as interesting as his work. Read full review

Michael O'Sullivan

Jul 25, 2018

Vreeland’s film, for the most part, is structured around spoken passages from Beaton’s voluminous diaries, which are read, expressively, by Rupert Everett. The actor ably channels the persona of the self-described “rabid aesthete.” Read full review

Mark Feeney

Jul 18, 2018

All in all, Beaton could have been a character in an Evelyn Waugh novel — both belonged to the Bright Young Things, in ’20s London — except that he and Waugh detested each other. Read full review

Phil de Semlyen

Jun 28, 2018

For a man so singular, the film’s chronological approach feels conventional and there’s little of the spark or fantasy he infused into his work in evidence. Read full review

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