
Respected photographer, artist and set designer, Cecil Beaton. was best known for his Academy Award-winning work, designing for such award-winning films such as Gigi (1958) and My Fair Lady (1964). The film features archive footage and interviews with various models, artists and filmmakers who worked closely with Beaton during his illustrious career. Beaton was not only a dazzling chronicler of his time, but a supreme arbiter of its tastes. From the Bright Young Things, to th... (Full plot summary below)
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Respected photographer, artist and set designer, Cecil Beaton. was best known for his Academy Award-winning work, designing for such award-winning films such as Gigi (1958) and My Fair Lady (1964). The film features archive footage and interviews with various models, artists and filmmakers who worked closely with Beaton during his illustrious career. Beaton was not only a dazzling chronicler of his time, but a supreme arbiter of its tastes. From the Bright Young Things, to the front lines of World War II, and from the international belle monde and the pages of Vogue to a role as the Queen's official photographer, Beaton embodied the cultural and political schisms of the twentieth century. In this warm - though critical - portrait, which blends archival footage and photographs with voice over from Beaton's famed diaries to capture his legacy as a complex and unique creative force. Dynamic and lyrical, Love, Cecil (2017) is an examination of Beaton's singular sense of the visual, which dictated a style and set standards of creativity that continue to resonate and inspire today.
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| Big Apple ReviewsHarvey S. KartenSee this on the big screen where you can observe with wonder the designer's photographs, portraits, theatre designs, and snippets of two of Broadway's greatest musicals. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreAdoring, perhaps over-indulgent biography of the celebrated artist, designer, photographer and vain, self-promoting bon vivant Cecil Beaton |
| The Patriot LedgerAl AlexanderRich in Beaton treasurers, from his avant-garde photos and illustrations, to the trove of film clips, recordings and journals. |
| Daily Express (UK)Allan HunterLove, Cecil pays fond but not uncritical tribute to a man who described himself as "tormented by ambition." |
| Film ThreatNatalia WinkelmanDreamy without being fussy, Love, Cecil is a handsome paean to its subject. |
| Georgia StraightKen EisnerWhat emerges here is a charming, prickly, and deeply self-critical artiste who probably lacked love but put every shade of feeling into his work. Perhaps that's why Beaton never fell entirely out of fashion. |
| MiamiArtZineRuben RosarioThe director doesn't set out to reinvent the wheel, but what her film lacks in inventiveness and creativity, it compensates in a willingness to explore the Renaissance man at its core with clarity and compassion. |
| leonardmaltin.comLeonard MaltinCecil Beaton is one of those names that rings out in any history of 20th century art and culture. This entertaining and candid film explains why. |
| The Young FolksKristen LopezListening to the combination of recitation and words is the perfect embodiment of why Beaton is so compelling. He captures the beauty of a time gone by while also being enamored that he lives within it. |
| The Pop BreakMarisa CarpicoEven with incredible access to his output, his personal diaries and his remaining friends, Vreeland is perhaps too respectful of her subject's secrets. |