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She may be one of the most iconic faces of the 1960s, but chances are you don’t know all that much about Dame Lesley Lawson, aka Twiggy. Director Sadie Frost aims to correct that with Twiggy, an intimate behind-the-scenes documentary about the (in)famous model/actress/singer/daughter/girlfriend/wife/mother — who, it turns out, is awfully down-to-earth for someone who found worldwide fame so young.
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What a charming and captivating time capsule about a woman who embodied her time and then transcended it. Director Sadie Frost’s Twiggy is, of course, a delightful memory trip back to the swinging ‘60s in London and the ascendency of working class teenager Lesley Hornby to the heights of fashion fame. As gamine faced, slim and androgynous Twiggy, she broke all the rules for what women should look and act like. But because Twiggy is so singular in her authenticity and unabashedly positive nature, the film become a stirring portrait of something else entirely.
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Twiggy is director Sadie Frost’s appealing, charming documentary about the 1960s fashion icon known as Twiggy, whose super-skinny form and androgynous looks transformed how the fashion industry thought models were supposed to look. Prior to Twiggy, British fashion models came from the upper classes and were slim but curvy, tall and elegant young adult women. This 16-year-old girl from working class London, who spoke with a Cockney accent, changed all that.
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Sadie Frost’s Twiggy is a great watch for fashion fans and, more specifically, Twiggy fans. I liked learning more about her and seeing that she was who I thought she was–funny, self-deprecating, and without airs. I feel like, to paraphrase one of the people interviewed for the film, that her genuine spirit is what helped catapult her to stardom. She might have been one of the world’s most iconic fashion models, but she still remembered her working class roots.
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Dame Kristin Scott Thomas’ directorial debut, My Mother’s Wedding, will open in theaters August 8, almost two years after it had its world premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival.
Inspired by her own family history, Scott Thomas co-wrote the film with her husband, John Micklethwait. She also co-stars.
Dame Kristin Scott Thomas makes her feature directorial debut with My Mother’s Wedding (formerly titled North Star), a family tale about love and loss with a great cast. A lesser cast and better writing would have improved matters, but never mind. The plot revolves around the reunion of three sisters who are gathering at the family home for their mother’s third marriage. Mom (Scott Thomas) has been twice married and twice widowed, a detail from Scott Thomas’ own life. As a child, the filmmaker lost her father and her stepfather — both armed forces pilots — within six years.
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Dame Kristin Scott Thomas makes her feature directorial debut with North Star, a family tale about love and loss with a great cast. A lesser cast and better writing would have improved matters, but never mind. The plot revolves around the reunion of three sisters who are gathering at the family home for their mother’s third marriage. Mom (Scott Thomas) has been twice married and twice widowed, a detail from Scott Thomas’ own life. As a child, the filmmaker lost her father and her stepfather — both armed forces pilots — within six years.
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Michelle Dockery plays a London Barrister determined to convict a high-profile rapist in the six-part Netflix series Anatomy of a Scandal.. Arrogant, aristocratic James Whitehouse (Rupert Friend) is a respected Member of Parliament. He is accused of rape by one of his aides, with whom he, admittedly, had an adulterous affair. This provocative courtroom drama/erotic thriller, pivoting around the controversial concept of ‘consent.’
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There’s potential buried deep inside this violent crime-thriller that follows the NYPD hunting down two masked criminals who left eight police officers for dead in a drug heist gone wrong but, unfortunately, it never surfaces.
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It’s not enough to describe the plot of American Woman as about a woman whose daughter goes missing. It’s not enough to say that the main character behaves like the hoyden who had her daughter at 16 and is still acting like an adolescent, right along with her now teen-age daughter, now also a mother.
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