The First Monday in May
Directed by Andrew Rossi
Starring Andrew Bolton, Wong Kar-wai, Karl Lagerfeld, Rihanna and Anna Wintour
THE FIRST MONDAY IN MAY follows the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's most attended fashion exhibition in history, "China: Through The Looking Glass," an exploration of Chinese-inspired Western fashions by Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton. With unprecedented access, filmmaker Andrew Rossi captures the collision of high fashion and celebrity at the Met Gala, one of the biggest global fashion events chaired every year by Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour. Featuring a cast of renowned artists in many fields (including filmmaker Wong Kar Wai and fashion designers Karl Lagerfeld, Jean Paul Gaultier and John Galliano) as well as a host of contemporary pop icons like Rihanna, the movie dives into the debate about whether fashion should be viewed as art.
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Reviews
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★★★½ review by Cormac T Riordan on Letterboxd
Wong Kar-Wai Is A God Forever
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★★★★★ review by Erynn Mitchell on Letterboxd
My new aesthetic is Anna Wintour with a Starbucks coffee cup.
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★★★½ review by nevin on Letterboxd
this documentary needed less industry professionals being like "here's all the reasons we're not racist!!!" and more clips of anna wintour throwing shade at the celebrity elite
anyways i'm glad this focused on andrew bolton because he spoke at my graduation ceremony and made us all cry and honestly what a visionary
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★★★★ review by Lagerlout on Letterboxd
One of the best fashion documentaries I've seen in a very long time. It could have easily been an exercise in vanity and excess but is somehow all pulled together by the wonderful warmth and vision of Andrew Bolton.
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★★★½ review by Ruslan Mavrodinov on Letterboxd
While it ultimately feels like a stylish afterthought painted with broad strokes rather than an in-depth documentary, The First Monday of May gives an often fascinating behind-the-scenes look at putting together a stereotype-deconstructing art exhibit, infinitely more fascinating than the superficial world of fame and celebrity surrounding it.
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