Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful

Name: Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2020
Duration: 93 min
Cast: Helmut Newton, Sigourney Weaver, Isabella Rossellini, Grace Jones, Sylvia Gobbel

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Why we chose it

People still argue about the way Helmut Newton photographed women, so here the women in his pictures get to speak. Grace Jones and Isabella Rossellini remember a man who made them feel strong, while Susan Sontag, on archive tape, calls him a misogynist. It’s an argument you won’t settle.

Synopsis

A few weeks after Kristallnacht, a Jewish teenager leaves Germany, makes his way to Singapore and eventually settles in Australia. He is Helmut Newton, the photographer Vogue will sign to a contract, and the fashion world is still arguing about how women look through his lens. Here the models themselves describe the shoots, and each story reveals a slightly different man.