An antidote to stuff like America's Next Top Model, this film provides a refreshingly down-to-earth take on the profession of modeling. It's most memorable for the portrayal of "working models," the rank-and-file professionals who populate the industry, rather than the tiny number of supermodels our culture usually obsesses about.
While a supermodel does fleetingly appear in the film, it's only to point out how brutally specific the physical demands of modeling are... deviating even a small amount from the measurements considered ideal or showing signs of age are fatal setbacks.
In the last third the film takes some unexpected turns, as other posters have mentioned, calling into question again whether it's possible to observe a subject without causing them to change... or changing yourself.
While a supermodel does fleetingly appear in the film, it's only to point out how brutally specific the physical demands of modeling are... deviating even a small amount from the measurements considered ideal or showing signs of age are fatal setbacks.
In the last third the film takes some unexpected turns, as other posters have mentioned, calling into question again whether it's possible to observe a subject without causing them to change... or changing yourself.
