Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist

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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 23 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: September 11, 2018
  • Originally Released: 2018
  • Label: Greenwich Ent

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Certified Fresh78%

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Total Count: 54

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 101
Lorna Tucker's study of Vivienne Westwood is amiable enough but has its detractors. Full Review
Adelaide Review
Oct 18, 2018
Westwood may be intriguing for fashion types, punk-rockers and fans of septuagenarian women with potty mouths and trophy husbands, but it may be a harder sell for cinephiles who like their docs with a little more revelation. Full Review
Burnaway.org
Jan 15, 2020
Lorna Tucker's documentary portrait focuses equally on what happened afterwards, painting its subject as a committed activist, an artist with no time for convention or false modesty, and a personality worth spending time with. Full Review
The Age (Australia)
Oct 19, 2018
3 stars out of 4 -- Style-wise, she never stopped evolving and was always aggressively iconoclastic and provocative...
RogerEbert.com
Jun 8, 2018
[C]onsistently entertaining....[An] enthralled portrait of aberrant British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood.
Variety
Feb 1, 2018
Rating: 4/5 -- Westwood's loyalties feel torn and the fashion house is plunged into drama. It makes this the perfect film to double bill 'Phantom Thread' with. Full Review
Time Out
Jul 24, 2018
Rating: 3/5 -- There's plenty of interesting archival footage, as well as great contextualising commentary from the people around the dame. Full Review
City Press (South Africa)
Oct 25, 2018

Product Description:

This documentary chronicles the life, work and cultural impact of British punk fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood while also portraying the septuagenarian's efforts to incorporate environmental practices into her eponymous fashion label. Archival photographs and footage are interwoven with behind-the-scenes access and interviews with her industry contemporaries, including supermodels Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell and former Vogue editor André Leon Talley. Directed by Lorna Tucker.

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  • UPC: 030306560199
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