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Ondi TimonerCamera:
Nancy SchreiberMuziek:
Marcelo ZarvosActeurs:
Matt Smith, Marianne Rendón, Mark Moses, John Benjamin Hickey, Carolyn McCormick, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Tina Benko, McKinley Belcher III (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
Robert Mapplethorpe’s portraits, images of calla lilies, and chronicles of New York City’s underground BDSM scene remain touchstones of 20th-century photography even now, nearly three decades after his death from complications of HIV/AIDS in 1989. Mapplethorpe revisits the titular photographer’s legacy, beginning at the moment just before he takes up residence in the Chelsea Hotel. There, Mapplethorpe begins to amass a portfolio of images - and, at the same time, to explore his formerly supressed attraction to men. But Mapplethorpe’s relentless ambition - as he says in one early scene, “I can’t just be Mapplethorpe the photographer,” fancying himself a “modern Michelangelo” - threatens to tear apart the relationships he cherishes the most. (Tribeca Film Festival)
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