About Face: Supermodels Then and Now (2012)

'About Face' explores beauty and aging through the stories of the original supermodels: women, now between fifty and eighty years old, whose images defined our sense of beauty over the last... See full summary »

Director:

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

Stars:

Carmen Dell'Orefice, Isabella Rossellini, Jerry Hall

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Carmen Dell'Orefice	...	Self
Isabella Rossellini	...	Self
Jerry Hall	...	Self
Christie Brinkley	...	Self
Bethann Hardison	...	Self
China Machado	...	Self
Marisa Berenson	...	Self
Carol Alt	...	Self
Paulina Porizkova	...	Self
Pat Cleveland	...	Self
Beverly Johnson	...	Self
Lisa Taylor	...	Self
Christy Turlington	...	Self
Karen Bjornson	...	Self
Kim Alexis	...	Self

Storyline

'About Face' explores beauty and aging through the stories of the original supermodels: women, now between fifty and eighty years old, whose images defined our sense of beauty over the last half-century. Shot in Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' intimate portrait style, participants include Isabella Rossellini, Christie Brinkley, Marisa Berenson, China Machado, Beverly Johnson, Carmen Dell'Orefice, Paulina Porizkova, Jerry Hall, and Christy Turlington among others. They discuss the fashion industry, their careers, aging, plastic surgery, botox, and how they have reassessed and redefined their own sense of beauty as they have aged. Designer Calvin Klein says in the film, 'They had something inside that came through...they had character, they had personality. Those qualities never age'.

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Plot Keywords:

aging | fashion industry | supermodel | plastic surgery | nude photograph | 

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Genres:

Documentary | Biography | Comedy

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Certificate:

Not Rated

User Reviews

Beauty does age and change yet it gets redone, reworked and it keeps the same fresh attitude.

Just watched this HBO documentary called "About Face" which is a collection of clips and interviews that features many well known and top notch famous supermodels. It showcases and displays how each started their work young and gradually the beauty developed and for sure the age and becoming old started to happen. Yet as most tell the life of a model comes as a price from a lot of sex to drugs binges, it's a heck of a lot of fun early on, but when the age hits the beauty is reworked and retooled with plastic surgery and Botox procedures. Still mostly it's just a beauty face of retooling and reworking and the love and fresh attitudes of the ladies still remain the same as they all live and love longer and enjoy much of the stuff from their early years as Jerry Hall stated even though older she still likes to wear sexy silk lingerie! Overall good doc that shows the life and ups and downs of supermodels as it gives a good history of how beauty does age and grow old only to be reworked and retooled. And the clips and interviews with Jerry Hall, Beverly Johnson, Christy Turlington, and Paulina Porizkova are good and memorable.

Details

Official Sites:

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Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

23 July 2012 (USA)

Also Known As:

About Face

Box Office

Budget:

$500,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

75 min

Color:

Color