8.4 /10 1 Votes
97% Rotten Tomatoes Running time 108 minutes | 7.5/10 IMDb 4/5 The Guardian Music director David Benjamin Steinberg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Directed by Randy Barbato
Fenton Bailey Produced by Katharina Otto-Bernstein Starring Debbie Harry
Fran Lebowitz
Robert Mapplethorpe
Paul Martineau
Brooke Shields Music by David Benjamin Steinberg Release date January 2016 (2016-01) (Sundance) Initial release 20 March 2016 (San Francisco) Directors Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato Producers Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, Katharina Otto-Bernstein Nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary Or Nonfiction Special Cast Debbie Harry, Fran Lebowitz, Brooke Shields, Paul Martineau Similar Photograph movies, Biographies, Documentaries | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mapplethorpe look at the pictures official trailer
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures is a 2016 American documentary film about the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, directed and executive produced by Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey, and produced by Katharina Otto-Bernstein for Film Manufacturers Inc.
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- Mapplethorpe look at the pictures official trailer
- An exclusive clip from mapplethorpe look at the pictures
- Selected cast
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Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures, received its premiere at Sundance Film Festival in January 2016, followed by the international premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February, and a world television premiere on HBO in April. The film was released theatrically in the US and UK in April 2016.
An exclusive clip from mapplethorpe look at the pictures
Selected cast
Reception
Izy Radwanska Zhang, writing for the British Journal of Photography, said "Aside from telling a gripping story, Bailey and Barbato have succeeded in capturing the overwhelming sense of adoration and emotional paralysis felt by all those who were influenced by Mapplethorpe."
Peter Bradshaw, writing in The Guardian, said it was an "interesting if flawed documentary study", that "the movie is, for me, a little uncritical on the subject of Mapplethorpe’s weaknesses: his lucrative celebrity portraits now look, frankly, uninteresting" and "for me, the problem with this film is that it doesn’t analyse Mapplethorpe’s much admired photographs of flowers. How seriously did the artist take these images – how seriously should we take them? Was it that pistels and stamens and petals resembled genitalia? Is that not the point? Or were the flowers simply there to deflect criticism, to underscore a spurious context and artistic good faith? It’s difficult to tell. This otherwise thorough study does justice to Mapplethorpe’s talent."