75
RogerEbert.com
All the artistry and absurdity, glamour and the grit of the fashion industry are on display in the documentary Mademoiselle C.
Mademoiselle C
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- France
- 2013
- · 93m
Director
Fabien Constant
Cast
Tom Ford,
Donatella Versace,
Karl Lagerfeld,
Carine Roitfeld,
Linda Evangelista,
Anna Wintour
Genre
Documentary
This documentary examines former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief and fashion stylist Carine Roitfeld. Interviews with Roitfeld, Tom Ford, Diane von Furstenburg, and many more are featured alongside archival footage to track Roitfeld's long and influential career. Footage of Roitfeld in her day-to-day work gives a behind-the-scenes look at the world of high fashion.
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75
Slant Magazine by Diego Semerene
It's to Carine Roitfeld's own credit and director Fabien Constant's funky and frenetic pacing that the doc feels neither like a corporate hagiography nor like mere fashionista masturbation material.
75
RogerEbert.com by Christy Lemire
All the artistry and absurdity, glamour and the grit of the fashion industry are on display in the documentary Mademoiselle C.
70
Village Voice
Mademoiselle C, however, shows the reclusive style guru as the antithesis to the infamous fashion queen, and Roitfeld comes across as quite goofy and actually relatable.
70
Village Voice by Araceli Cruz
Mademoiselle C, however, shows the reclusive style guru as the antithesis to the infamous fashion queen, and Roitfeld comes across as quite goofy and actually relatable.
60
Total Film
Mme C. is Carine Roitfeld, ex-editor of Vogue Paris and former stylist. She’s a maternal presence – her own son calls her a MILF. Which makes for fantastic access, if minimal drama.
60
Empire by Olly Richards
High in gloss if not necessary insight, this is manna for fashion fans but a marginally slighter piece of work than The September Issue.
60
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
As vanity projects go, this one’s unusually well-made — as any portrait of an iconic stylist ought to be.
60
The New York Times by Miriam Bale
The filmmaking has some of the wit and irreverence of its subject, but goes on meandering tangents rather than having a cohesive vision or tone.
60
Total Film by Emma Morgan
Mme C. is Carine Roitfeld, ex-editor of Vogue Paris and former stylist. She’s a maternal presence – her own son calls her a MILF. Which makes for fantastic access, if minimal drama.
60
Time Out London by Cath Clarke
You’ll be left scratching your head wondering what a naked girl draped in a purple net curtain in a cemetery has got to do with frocks. Not many revelations here.
50
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
Mademoiselle C should please fashion devotees while leaving everyone else scratching their heads.
50
Los Angeles Times by Annlee Ellingson
Unfortunately, the film doesn't show its subject's creative process as much as that of her collaborators.
40
Time Out
This is merely a vanity project that shamelessly plugs Roitfeld’s new stateside brand.
40
The Dissolve by Genevieve Koski
More of a fawning love letter than a nuanced profile of a woman who surely must be more fascinating than she comes off here.
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