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McQueen (2018 film)
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Wikipedia article
'McQueen' is a 2018 biographical documentary film, directed by Ian Bonhte, written and co-directed by Peter Ettedgui, and produced by Ian Bonhte, Andee Ryder, Nick Taussig, and Paul Van Carter under the banner of Misfits Entertainment, and Salon Pictures. The documentary is based on the life and career of British fashion designer Alexander McQueen.
Plot
The film looks into life and career of British fashion designer Alexander McQueen.
Cast
Credits adapted from Rotten Tomatoes.
* Alexander McQueen
* Tom Ford
* Isabella Blow
* Kate Moss
* Janet McQueen
Production
Film director Ian Bonhte, and producer Peter Ettedgui approached Alexander McQueen's family to make a documentary film about McQueen; the family declined the request. In February 2017 Bonhte, and Ettedgui proposed their idea to several film distributors. The film was financed within three days, and director Ian Bonhte added, "We wanted to make a really respectful cinematic version of Lees story".
The production team took the project, with "zero access and zero original archive at our fingertips", and worked 18-20 hour for a year to finish the project.
Reception
Box office
'McQueen' grossed $868,544 in the United Kingdom, and grossed $205,045 in Australia, for a total worldwide gross of $2,638,552. On its domestic opening weekend the film grossed $98,873, averaging $24,718 per location. On its second weekend 'McQueen' grossed $83,461, with change of -16%, and averaging $16,692 per location. On its third weekend the film grossed $181,638, which became its highest opening weekend, with +118% change, and averaging $5,342 per 34 theaters.Critical response
On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of based on reviews, with an average rating of . The website's critical consensus reads, "'McQueen' offers an intimate, well-sourced, and overall moving look at a young life and brilliant career that were tragically cut short." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 84 out of 100, based on 28 critics, indicating "Universal acclaim".Peter Travers of the 'Rolling Stone' wrote, "'McQueen' is an empathetic, ravishing and scorchingly outspoken look at why, eight years after his death, he still leaves us transfixed". Michael O'Sullivan of 'The Washington Post' wrote, "'McQueen' makes the case that its subject was an artist whose clay was clothing. It also, despite giving short shrift to psychoanalysis, reminds us that everything you might want to know about the artist can be found in the art". Kenneth Turan of the 'Los Angeles Times' wrote, "If you live and die for fashion, a documentary called McQueen could tell only one story, that of designer Alexander McQueen, whose extraordinary gifts, dark preoccupations and tragic death make for a completely engrossing, compulsively watchable film".
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