CinemaOSMovie · 2010 · 1h 30m

David Bailey: Four Beats to the Bar and No Cheating

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From Vogue magazine fashion photographer to filmmaker, painter and sculptor, Bailey is the working-class Londoner who befriended the stars, married his muses (Jean Shrimpton, Catherine Deneuve, Marie Helvin) and captures the spirit and elegance of his times with his refreshingly simple approach and razor-sharp eye. He is also the man whose life and work inspired one of the cult movies of the sixties, Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up, and who has constantly travelled the globe either with the most beautiful models or chronicling the contemporary reality of Papua New Guinea, Brazil, Vietnam, Afghanistan and other countries with ground-breaking reportages. Above all, Bailey is a romantic with a delightful sense of humour approaching his 73rd year and showing no sign of slowing up. Director Jérôme de Missolz has created an engaging portrait of this very private man who bared the soul of the swinging sixties and seventies with his photographs and films.

Directed byJerome de Missolz

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 30m
Language
EN
Released
January 10, 2010
Studios
White RabbitLu Films

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Cast & crew

2 credited
Starring

David Bailey

Self

Jean Shrimpton

Jean Shrimpton

Creative team
Directed by
Jerome de Missolz

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