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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.
Mar 1, 2019 · 34% 56 Reviews Tomatometer 53% Fewer than 50 Ratings Audience Score A chronicle of the career of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his death in 1989 at the...
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- Matt Smith
- Ondi Timoner
- Biography, Drama, LGBTQ+
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Apr 1, 2016 · Robert Mapplethorpe, who’d died of AIDS earlier that year, didn’t live to respond to Helms’ art-attack. By then, the artist was so revered, as a photographer of human faces, figures, and floral perfection that he’d already earned a mid-career retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Apr 3, 2016 · This documentary puts Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs, which included graphic depictions of sex and S-and-M, in the framework of a life and artistic vision.
- James Poniewozik
Feb 28, 2019 · “Mapplethorpe,” directed by Ondi Timoner, is a fictionalized biography of the photographer that is most alive when it’s putting its subject’s pictures on the screen, which it does often.
- Ondi Timoner
Apr 4, 2016 · The HBO documentary on the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (which premiered April 4) begins in 1989, months after his death, with Sen. Jesse Helms decrying his work on the floor of the U.S....
Apr 23, 2018 · A superb performance by former Doctor Who Matt Smith is the only reason to see Ondi Timoner’s biopic about controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
