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Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston (15)
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3
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5.25
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Directed by:
Whitney Sudler-Smith
Written by:
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2010 |
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DOCUMENTARY
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US |
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C |
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92 |
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Heartfelt lament for a dead fashion designer. |
Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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Ultrasuede is a shambolically structured hagiography of seventies New York fashion-designer Halston (pictured left). We learn very little about him except that he was talented and flamboyantly gay, with a self-destructive enthusiasm for drugs and disco.
Director-presenter Whitney Sudler-Smith is himself a compulsive show-off, with a distracting array of hair-colourings that change from shot to shot. At one point, he wears a spectacularly ill-advised moustache, as though auditioning to become one of the Village People.
It’s most calculated to appeal to those of a camp persuasion. The most unequivocally masculine presence in it is Liza Minnelli.
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