If Art Deco had a face, it was surely Tamara De Lempicka, giving us the side-eye at the wheel of a green Bugati in her famous self-portrait. The work was commissioned for the cover of a German magazine, Die Dame, which claimed her as “a symbol of women’s liberation” several decades before that became a slogan. Julie Rubio’s documentary traces her tumultuous life and times: born to a wealthy Jewish family in Poland, she married a Russian aristocrat who lost everything in the Revolution. They fled to Paris, where Tamara made a name for herself as an artist and as a hedonist. But the rise of fascism meant more upheaval and a move to the USA.
Rubio’s landmark doc teases out the truths behind the myths and sheds light on De Lempicka’s art.
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Julie Rubio
Eden Espinosa, Matt Gould, Victoria De Lempicka
USA
2024
English
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Producer
Julie Rubio, Svetlana Cvetko, Amy Harrison
Screenwriter
Julie Rubio, Amy Harrison
Cinematography
Svetlana Cvetko
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