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  • 2020
  • Unrated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2020
  • Unrated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 33 m

Summary One of the great masters of photography, Helmut Newton made a name for himself exploring the female form, and his cult status continues long after his tragic death in a Los Angeles car crash in 2004. Newton worked around the globe, from Singapore to Australia to Paris to Los Angeles, but Weimar Germany was the visual hallmark of his work...

Directed By: Gero von Boehm

Written By: Gero von Boehm

  • 2020
  • Unrated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2020
  • Unrated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 33 m

Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Summary One of the great masters of photography, Helmut Newton made a name for himself exploring the female form, and his cult status continues long after his tragic death in a Los Angeles car crash in 2004. Newton worked around the globe, from Singapore to Australia to Paris to Los Angeles, but Weimar Germany was the visual hallmark of his work...

Directed By: Gero von Boehm

Written By: Gero von Boehm

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83
Jul 23, 2020
Would his work, or any work that walks the line the way his does, be tolerated today? It’s not explicitly in this documentary, but perhaps something worth asking after watching a film about an artist who experienced fascism first-hand.
By Karen Gordon FULL REVIEW
75
Jul 23, 2020
While the film is hardly as transgressive as its subject, it manages to be unexpectedly moving, and a nostalgic time capsule of an art-world rebel whose unorthodox methods and decidedly politically incorrect vision couldn’t exist today.
By Ryan Lattanzio FULL REVIEW
70
Jul 24, 2020
Never intending to rationalize away the seedier aspects of Newton's work, the film hopes instead to make us recognize the humor and inventiveness lurking there as well — and to persuade us that an artist's unruly erotic imagination doesn't necessarily tell us much about what he thinks of women.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW
70
Jul 22, 2020
An engaging and surprisingly playful documentary about the man who was arguably the most transgressive photographer to emerge from the 1960s and ’70s.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
67
Jul 23, 2020
If von Boehm adds anything to what's known of Newton's life, it's to explore his iconography, about which he was very honest. His dismissiveness of photography as insightful, his enigmatic storytelling, and the great contradiction of his work, of how a young Jewish boy who was almost murdered during Kristallnacht absorbed so much of the imagery of the Reich's most artistic propagandist, Leni Riefenstahl.
By Richard Whittaker FULL REVIEW
60
Oct 29, 2020
A fascinating film.
By Cath Clarke FULL REVIEW
60
Jul 23, 2020
A gossipy portrait of a charmingly naughty boy whose genius is perhaps best appreciated on a second viewing with the sound off and the eyes wide open.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Lupa Film, Monarda Arts
Release Date Jul 24, 2020
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating Unrated
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Website https://helmutnewton.ayapro.ne.jp/
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Awards

Stockholm Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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