How To Smell A Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock at his Farm in Normandy
Directed by Les Blank and Gina Leibrecht
Starring Ricky Leacock and Les Blank
In the year 2000, Les Blank, along with co-filmmaker Gina Leibrecht, visited Richard Leacock (1921-2011) at his farm in Normandy, France and recorded conversations with him about his life, his work, and his other passion: cooking! With the flair of a seasoned raconteur, Leacock recounts key moments in his seventy years as a filmmaker and the innovations that he, D.A. Pennebaker, Albert Maysles and others invented that revolutionized documentary filmmaking, and explores the mystery of creativity. With the passing of both Blank and Leacock, the documentary is a moving insight into the lives of two seminal figures in the history of film.
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Reviews
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★★★★★ review by cheesebrad on Letterboxd
Brilliant
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★★★½ review by JesseCataldo on Letterboxd
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★★★★ review by boxcarwine on Letterboxd
A filmmaker's guide to living your last hurrah.
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★★★★½ review by Samuel B. Prime on Letterboxd
Friends have flights of fancy while chewing the fat on food and film in France.
A history of the American documentary form, with attention to direct cinema.
Richard Leacock has nothing to hide. Everything is, as they say, "on the table."
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