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Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
Directed by
Randy Barbato
,
Fenton Bailey
Not Rated
2016
1h 45m
Documentary
,
Biography
7.5
97%
88%
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An examination of the life and work of the revered and controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
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Cast of Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
Robert Mapplethorpe
Self (archive footage)
Fran Lebowitz
Self
Debbie Harry
Self
Brooke Shields
Self
Carolina Herrera
Self
Paul Martineau
Self
Bob Colacello
Self
Patti Smith
Self (voice) (uncredited)
Randy Barbato
Director / Producer
Fenton Bailey
Director / Producer
Mona Card
Producer
Katharina Otto-Bernstein
Producer
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures Ratings & Reviews
Washington Blade
Brian T. Carney
An intricate examination of the provocative artist and his enduring legacy.
Hyperallergic
Jon Hogan
The most powerful way that Bailey and Barbato pay tribute to Mapplethorpe is by foregrounding his perspective.
The Nation
Tim Murphy
A new HBO documentary on the late photographer is smart enough to realize that his power derived from his creepiness.
Flavorwire
Jason Bailey
The film seeks to humanize an artist who'd been demonized, but not by ignoring his own demons.
Los Angeles Daily News
Rob Lowman
[It serves] up many interesting personal moments. The artist was never dull.
Washington Post
Hank Stuever
Look at the Pictures: It restores a sense of the forbidden to Mapplethorpe that's been lost in the years of worship.
Village Voice
Melissa Anderson
Each chapter of Mapplethorpe's biography - his Catholic boyhood in Queens, his renowned romances with Patti Smith and the collector Sam Wagstaff, his devotion to and aestheticizing of s/m - is given the same cursory treatment.
San Francisco Chronicle
David Wiegand
Look at the Pictures mirrors what Mapplethorpe did with his own life and career: It uses the pictures to tell a version of Robert Mapplethorpe while leaving us with the nagging feeling that there was much more to him than met the eye.
Entertainment Weekly
Joe McGovern
Though an undoubtedly fascinating journey into the artistic mind (and the 1970s and 80s New York City), Look at the Pictures never quite breaks free from the lionizing of Mapplethorpe and appeasing people who already defend him.
Newsday
Yancey Roy
This otherwise excellent film doesn't offer much in the way of context, perspective or analysis.
RogerEbert.com
Justine Elias
The directors do well when allowing Mapplethorpe's friends, family, colleagues, and the artist himself-via archive interviews-to frame the conversation.
Variety
Peter Debruge
The controversial artist may have worked in black and white, but his life is anything but in this terrific portrait by the 'Inside Deep Throat' duo.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
Though the title ironically appropriates Jesse Helms' Senate floor admonition during the art-funding uproar over his work, it also acts as the simplest of incitements.
The Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Farber
At least the film allows viewers to come to their own conclusions on these aesthetic questions; the subtitle "Look at the Pictures," does not tell us what to think.
The Film Stage
Rory O'Connor
A snappy, confidently explicit overview of the photographer's work and life that chooses not to sugarcoat the man's ruthless ambition or seemingly exasperating personality.
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