All Is Vanity

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All Is Vanity

2022

1h 12m

Comedy

Mystery & Thriller

Fantasy

Drama

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38%

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8 Reviews

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Fewer than 50 Ratings

An eccentric photographer, his eager assistant and a jaded make-up artist are waiting for a model to arrive. They’ve never used this London warehouse location before, but it’s not like anything out of the ordinary. Yet when one of their number disappears overnight, events take a turn for the surreal.

Iana Murray

Empire Magazine

The sharp economic filmmaking of this meta-textual satirical mystery is ultimately weighed down by its cleverness.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 17, 2022

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Kevin Maher

Times (UK)

A one-location dirge featuring random actors drifting in and out of character and complaining about the script before winking to camera, because if you admit that it’s bad it’s really good.

Rated: 1/5

Oct 14, 2022

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

Sadly, this fatally self-conscious and self-aware movie fizzles out– a process that seems to start with the opening credits.

Rated: 2/5

Oct 11, 2022

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Brian Viner

Daily Mail (UK)

Well before the end, which thankfully comes after only 72 minutes, I’d stopped caring. All Is Vanity begins to feel terribly arch and self-conscious.

Rated: 2/5

Oct 21, 2022

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Rich Cline

Shadows on the Wall

As things begin to turn surreal, writer-director Marcos Mereles maintains a tight control over the material, but never quite locates a point of view through which the audience can get inside it.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 20, 2022

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Rosalynn Try-Hane

Battle Royale With Cheese

It feels as if Mereles is trying to make a surreal, whodunit, social commentary on the banality and vanity of the fashion world.

Oct 19, 2022

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John M

harmless enough - has some atmosphere I may remember- pretentious and self deprecating at the same time

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/09/23

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Synopsis

An eccentric photographer, his eager assistant and a jaded make-up artist are waiting for a model to arrive. They’ve never used this London warehouse location before, but it’s not like anything out of the ordinary. Yet when one of their number disappears overnight, events take a turn for the surreal.

Director: Marcos Mereles
Producer: Marcos Mereles
Screenwriter: Marcos Mereles
Production Co: MALBEC Films
Genre: Comedy, Mystery & Thriller, Fantasy, Drama
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 12m