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  • 2018
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2018
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 38 m

Summary Oscar®-winning set and costume designer, photographer, writer and painter Cecil Beaton was not only a dazzling chronicler, but an arbiter of his time. From the Bright Young Things to the front lines of war to the international belle monde and the pages of Vogue and then onto the Queen’s official photographer, Beaton embodied the cultural...

Directed By: Lisa Immordino Vreeland

  • 2018
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2018
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 38 m

Love, Cecil

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Summary Oscar®-winning set and costume designer, photographer, writer and painter Cecil Beaton was not only a dazzling chronicler, but an arbiter of his time. From the Bright Young Things to the front lines of war to the international belle monde and the pages of Vogue and then onto the Queen’s official photographer, Beaton embodied the cultural...

Directed By: Lisa Immordino Vreeland

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83
Jun 28, 2018
You can’t come away from Love, Cecil without appreciating how much of Beaton's aesthetic outlived him.
By Jim Slotek FULL REVIEW
75
Jun 28, 2018
You come away from the film feeling that Cecil Beaton represented the very essence of the fashion business, which continues to celebrate, be inspired by and imitate his huge legacy: absolutely exquisite and impeccable on the surface, often hiding a much darker and uglier reality.
By David Noh FULL REVIEW
70
Jul 19, 2018
38 years after his death, Beaton's name is not so much on everyone's lips, and one of the pleasures of this film is to revisit his gifts beyond his best known work, the Oscar-winning production design and costumes for "My Fair Lady."
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
70
Jun 28, 2018
The quirks of Beaton’s personality — his cultivation of enemies and frustrated romanticism, among them — are finally not as interesting as his work.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
63
Jul 18, 2018
All in all, Beaton could have been a character in an Evelyn Waugh novel — both belonged to the Bright Young Things, in ’20s London — except that he and Waugh detested each other.
By Mark Feeney FULL REVIEW
60
Jun 28, 2018
Even though it paints too rosy a picture, Love, Cecil fills out history with sparkling imagery.
By Abbey Bender FULL REVIEW
40
Jun 28, 2018
For a man so singular, the film’s chronological approach feels conventional and there’s little of the spark or fantasy he infused into his work in evidence.
By Phil de Semlyen FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Fischio Films
Release Date Jun 29, 2018
Duration 1 h 38 m
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Tagline The Life of Legendary Photographer Cecil Beaton
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Awards

Hamptons International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
DOC NYC
• 1 Nomination
Palm Springs International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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