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Helmut Newton Versioner: Org
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Isabella Rossellini, Charlotte Rampling, Grace Jones, Anna Wintour, Marianne Faithfull, Claudia Schiffer, Catherine Deneuve, Sylvia Gobbel, Nadja Auermann, Phyllis Posnick, Hanna Schygulla, Carla Sozzani, Arja Töyrylä, June Newton, Susan Sontag, Helmut Newton
Handling:
”Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful” er en dokumentar om en af 1900-tallets vigtigste fotografer. Det er et fascinerende dyk ned i kunstnerens værker og arbejdsmetoder, hvor kvinderne i Newtons professionelle liv, taler ud om samarbejdet med ham foran såvel som bag kameraet. Filmen indeholder interviews med prominente kvindelige ikoner som Charlotte Rampling, Grace Jones, Isabella Rossellini og Anna Wintour. Filmen skulle have haft verdenspremiere på Tribeca Film Festival i New York, som desværre blev aflyst. Nu kan de i stedet nydes i de danske biografer fra den 28. januar 2021.
Plot (English):
Born into a wealthy Jewish family, Helmut Newton came of age ensconced in the seductive decadence of an 'anything goes' Berlin under the Weimar Republic. His teenaged apprenticeship under commercial photography pioneer Yva - who perished in the Holocaust - coincided with his family's persecution under the rise of the Third Reich and the emergence of the striking aesthetics of infamous Nazi propagandist, filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl. He escaped with members of his family in 1938 and met his life partner June while in Australia working as a commercial photographer. The couple eventually settled in Paris where Helmut's gradual evolution beyond the, then, conservative confines of fashion photography coincided with the radical political upheaval of 60s France. Interpreting the most traumatic political and cultural shift in German history, Helmut established his artistic legacy by effectively channeling his past into an erotically charged, highly-subversive portfolio dominated by bold 'Aryan'...