
Advanced Style is a documentary that shows the lives of seven unique New Yorkers who's eclectic unique style and vital spirit have guided their approach to aging. Based on Ari Seth Cohen's famed blog of the same name, this film paints intimate and colorful portraits of independent stylish women aged 62 to 95 who are challenging conventional ideas about beauty, aging and Western culture's increasing obsession with youth, all the while being thrust into new found fame.... (Full plot summary below)
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Advanced Style is a documentary that shows the lives of seven unique New Yorkers who's eclectic unique style and vital spirit have guided their approach to aging. Based on Ari Seth Cohen's famed blog of the same name, this film paints intimate and colorful portraits of independent stylish women aged 62 to 95 who are challenging conventional ideas about beauty, aging and Western culture's increasing obsession with youth, all the while being thrust into new found fame.
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| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Robert Everett-GreenThese confident women care less about what comes off the runways – ‘money has nothing to do with style,’ says one – than with what can be assembled from thrift-shop finds, homemade items and imagination. |
| Baret NewsKam WilliamsThe best antidote around to America's unhealthy obsession with youth! |
| EmpireAdam SmithA highly enjoyable glance at Gotham's veteran haute couturists. |
| San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisThis eager-to-please documentary is short on story, but long on charm. That’s because the seven profile subjects embrace their age and celebrate their style as creative self-expression. |
| Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)Brian GibsonVeering away from these women's style-philosophies, witticisms, families, health concerns, or their pasts, the doc becomes promotional and proselytizing. Personalities get camera-brushed into commercial gloss, a simplistic patina of fashionability. |
| Common Sense MediaRenee SchonfeldDocu about senior fashionistas promotes positive body images. |
| NewcityRay PrideLet us exalt ladies like Zelda Kaplan, Ilona Royce Smithkin, Lynn Dell, Tziporah Salamon, Debra Rapoport, Joyce Carpati and Jacquie Tajah Murdock and be thankful for such joie de vivre so well-vivred. |
| FILMINK (Australia)Sarah WardWitty one-liners flow freely from the film's subjects, in keeping with the celebratory spirit of the documentary. |
| Daily Express (UK)Allan HunterAdvanced Style celebrates the glamour and vitality of sassy New Yorkers who still cut a dash in the autumn of their years. |
| We Got This CoveredAdam A. DonaldsonAdvanced Style is a fun and sunny documentary about fashion mavens in their golden years, proving, as always, that age ain't nothing but a number. |