Credited cast: | |||
Rupert Everett | ... | Narrated by (voice) | |
David Bailey | ... | Himself - Interviewee | |
Manolo Blahnik | ... | Himself - Interviewee | |
Hamish Bowles | ... | Himself - Interviewee | |
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Susanna Brown | ... | Herself - Interviewee |
Leslie Caron | ... | Herself - Interviewee | |
Peter Eyre | ... | Himself - Interviewee | |
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Philippe Garner | ... | Himself - Interviewee |
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Ray Gurton | ... | Himself - Interviewee |
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Nicky Haslam | ... | Himself - Interviewee |
David Hockney | ... | Himself - Interviewee | |
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Alastair Macaulay | ... | Himself - Interviewee |
Isaac Mizrahi | ... | Himself - Interviewee | |
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Robin Muir | ... | Himself - Interviewee |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Julie Andrews | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
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 ...
A well made documentary on the life of Cecil Beaton. A man with a great imagination despite being a victim of his time.
Certainly not an easily likeable person: but isn't that true for all artistic exceptional intellectual or creative people?
Worthy of watching to see his mark on art in the first half of the 20th Century.