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  • 2014
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  • First Run Features
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  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 2 h

Summary Altina Schinasi (1907 - 1999) was a paradox. Simultaneously seductive and reserved, her sheltered upbringing was in sharp contrast to the bold sexuality of her artwork, and she created a fashion sensation in the 1930s with her design for Harlequin eyeglasses. Altina is an affecting, provocative, and richly informative documentary about a...

Directed By: Peter Sanders

  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 2 h
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 2 h

Altina

Metascore Generally Favorable
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Summary Altina Schinasi (1907 - 1999) was a paradox. Simultaneously seductive and reserved, her sheltered upbringing was in sharp contrast to the bold sexuality of her artwork, and she created a fashion sensation in the 1930s with her design for Harlequin eyeglasses. Altina is an affecting, provocative, and richly informative documentary about a...

Directed By: Peter Sanders

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70
Sep 23, 2014
Altina makes for loose, exasperating but oddly endearing viewing.
By Ronnie Scheib FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 11, 2014
In Peter Sanders’s sassy documentary Altina... there’s plenty of interesting ground to cover.
By Anita Gates FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 9, 2014
In this portrait, we are treated to an acquaintanceship with a woman in an almost constant search for a creative life, and that might be its most moving feature.
By Daphne Howland FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 18, 2014
The product is more pop vanity project — and one that's a bit late to the party — than onion-peeling dissection.
By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Eight Twelve Productions, Victoria Sanders Film Partners
Release Date Sep 12, 2014
Duration 2 h
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline Who decreed that Art should just be something you nail up on a wall.
Website http://www.altinathefilm.com/
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Awards

Toronto Jewish Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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