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Love, Cecil

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Love, Cecil

Released Jun 29, 2018

1h 38m

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The life and work of Oscar-winning costume designer Cecil Beaton.

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Love, Cecil shines a warm - and long overdue - spotlight on the work of an Oscar-winning talent whose contributions to classic cinema are too often overlooked.

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J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

[Director Lisa Immordino Vreeland's] best accomplishment is having gathered so much of Beaton's work from various disciplines into one place, so the full force of his aesthetic can be appreciated.

Mar 27, 2020

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Scott Marks

San Diego Reader

The film version of My Fair Lady is a ceremonious bore, and the viewer has Cecil Beaton's pompously sedentary, open-casket visual compositions to blame.

Rated: 1/5

Aug 31, 2018

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Michael O'Sullivan

Washington Post

Thorough and pleasurable - if lightweight...

Rated: 2.5/4

Jul 25, 2018

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Richard Crouse

Richard Crouse

It moves chronologically through the man's life with none of the style Beaton brought to his own life on display but narration by Rupert Everett, lifted directly from the photographer's own diaries, brings intimacy to the proceedings.

Rated: 3.5/5

Mar 4, 2021

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

This documentary tribute is colorful if somewhat frustrating, though that may be inevitable...

Oct 15, 2020

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Steven Prokopy

Third Coast Review

Love, Cecil doesn't shy away from Beaton's contradictions or from his being something of a poseur -- at times he almost embraced the double life he was leading -- and that makes the film all the more watchable and substantive.

Jun 17, 2020

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Well presented documentary on the life and career of photographer, costume and set designer, author, illustrator, and painter Cecil Beaton. Although his life story is quite fascinating, I thought the real power of the film was in the striking photographs he took, as well as the dazzling costumes and lush sets he created for such films as My Fair Lady and Gigi. The movie is narrated by Rupert Everett and directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland. There were no subtitles on my DVD copy, but I was able to access them through the closed captioning option on my remote.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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The life and work of Oscar-winning costume designer Cecil Beaton.

Director: Lisa Immordino Vreeland
Producer: Lisa Immordino Vreeland
Distributor: Zeitgeist Films, Kino Lorber
Production Co: Fischio Films
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 29, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 21, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $103.3K
Runtime: 1h 38m

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