Fashion designer John Galliano is one of those people who changed the style, the look, the way that a generation dressed, expressed and felt about themselves. He worked at the top, for Dior, for Givenchy. He dressed Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Penelope Cruz, Charlize Theron… And in 2011, still at the height of his powers but also high as a kite, Galliano was filmed making anti-semitic and racist comments, and everything came crashing down. Kevin Macdonald (Marley; Touching the Void; Whitney) explores both the bad and the beautiful in this vivid portrait.
Macdonald has crafted one of the most riveting rise-fall-redemption story arcs in documentary format in recent memory, with Galliano himself as his unreliable — but never less than compelling — guide. Macdonald can be a great filmmaker… and an especially sharp interviewer. And he’s in top-form here, pushing his subject to uncomfortable places.
Christian Blauvelt, Indiewire
A frank portrait of a damaged, evasive man trying to come to terms with what he has done.
Fionnuala Halligan, Screen International
Kevin Macdonald
John Galliano, Charlize Theron, Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss
UK
2023
English
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Cinematography
Patrick Blossier, David Harriman, Nelson Hume, Magda Kowalczyk
Editor
Avdhesh Mohla
Original Music
Tom Hodge
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