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  • 2020
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2020
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary One of the most revolutionary and influential fashion designers of his time, Martin Margiela has remained an elusive figure the entirety of his decades-long career. From Jean Paul Gaultier’s assistant to creative director at Hermès to leading his own House, Margiela never showed his face publicly and avoided interviews, but reinvented fa...

Directed By: Reiner Holzemer

Written By: Reiner Holzemer

  • 2020
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2020
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 30 m

Martin Margiela: In His Own Words

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Summary One of the most revolutionary and influential fashion designers of his time, Martin Margiela has remained an elusive figure the entirety of his decades-long career. From Jean Paul Gaultier’s assistant to creative director at Hermès to leading his own House, Margiela never showed his face publicly and avoided interviews, but reinvented fa...

Directed By: Reiner Holzemer

Written By: Reiner Holzemer

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90
Aug 10, 2020
Here, the effect of merely hearing his voice and watching his hands is so intimate that we walk away with an almost tactile sense of who Martin Margiela is, the way we confidently, yet only sort of, know what the man in the moon looks like. His mystery becomes our secret too.
By Stephanie Zacharek FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 10, 2020
The use of the notoriously media-shy Margiela’s warm, serious spoken voice helps to create intimacy, even though we never see his face.
By Simran Hans FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 10, 2020
Reiner Holzemer’s adulation of his subject feels most credible because he spends a lot of time focusing on the clothes.
By Diego Semerene FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 14, 2020
The grandest irony to emerge is that despite its unquestionable sincerity, soft-spoken iconoclast Martin Margiela’s insistent non-image may yet turn out to be fashion’s canniest bit of image-making of all.
By Jessica Kiang FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 13, 2020
It is a poem about the ways in which the speed and ubiquity demanded by the internet have squeezed certain creative wells dry, perhaps irreparably.
By Jon Caramanica FULL REVIEW
60
Aug 13, 2020
Those not enthralled by Margiela's wittily iconoclastic but gimmicky avant-garde designs (and I must confess to being one of them) will probably find this documentary less than compelling. Like so many fashion-themed docs, Martin Margiela: In His Own Words will play best to afficionados who will be grateful for this insightful look at its reclusive subject.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
60
Aug 10, 2020
Reiner Holzemer has made a film that is intensely supportive and uncritical – as fashion documentaries tend to be – and to those of us who are outside the fashion world, it can be a bit opaque. Yet it is refreshing to hear creativity discussed with such seriousness and commitment.
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Production Company Reiner Holzemer Film, Aminata Productions, Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF), ARTE, Vlaamse Radio en Televisie (VRT), Canvas, Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF), Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds, Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge, Casa Kafka Pictures Movie Tax Shelter Empowered by Belfius
Release Date Aug 14, 2020
Duration 1 h 30 m
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Website https://dogwoofsales.com/margielainhisownwords
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