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- This film is an intimate look at the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, from his rise to fame in the 1970s, until his untimely death in 1989.
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Mar 1, 2019 · But unless you’re disturbed by pickle shots (in which case why are you watching Mapplethorpe?), the movie is shock-free. It’s Mapplethorpe Vanilla.
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Mapplethorpe is a 2018 American biographical drama film written and directed by Ondi Timoner about the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Shooting began on July 11, 2017 in New York and lasted only 19 days. It premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival.
"Mapplethorpe, The Director's Cut," portrays a nuanced portrait of an artist at the height of his craft, along with the self-destructive impulses that threatened to undermine everything he prized.
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- Matt Smith
- Ondi Timoner
- Drama
Mar 1, 2019 · “Mapplethorpe” is defined by cliche biopic problems: a chronological approach and emphasis on facts that makes it a slow bore, as informative as the film might be for newcomers. It starts with him as a young man leaving the confines of the stuffy Pratt Institute to become a hustling artist in 1970s New York City.
Feb 1, 2020 · Mapplethorpe: The Director's Cut: Directed by Ondi Timoner. With Matt Smith, Marianne Rendón, John Benjamin Hickey, Brandon Sklenar. A look at the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989.
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- Biography, Drama
- Ondi Timoner
- 2019-09-23
Feb 28, 2019 · A bored-seeming Matt Smith plays the famous — and famously provocative — photographer in a plodding film that too-dutifully ticks familiar scenes off the Great Artist Biopic checklist.
Mapplethorpe discovered himself both sexually and artistically in New York City throughout the 70’s and 80’s. The film explores Mapplethorpe’s life from moments before he and Patti Smith moved into the famed Chelsea hotel, home to a world of bohemian chic.
