John Singer Sargent: Fashion and Swagger (2024)
Filmed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Tate Britain, London, the exhibition reveals Sargent’s power to express distinctive personalities, power dynamics and gender identities during this fascinating period of cultural reinvention. Alongside 50 paintings by Sargent sit stunning items of clothing and accessories worn by his subjects, drawing the audience into the artist’s studio. Sargent’s sitters were often wealthy, their clothes costly, but what happens when you turn yourself over to the hands of a great artist? The manufacture of public identity is as controversial and contested today as it was at the turn of the 20th century, but somehow Sargent’s work transcends the social noise and captures an alluring truth with each brush stroke.
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I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.
It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Blistering performances.