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Paris Is Burning

1990

Jennie Livingston

Documentary

7.8

1,552

Documentary An unblinking behind the scenes story of fashion obsessed New Yorkers who created "voguing" and drag balls , and turned these raucous celebrations into a powerful expression pf personal pride. The world within a world is instantly familiar, filled with ambitions, desires and yearnings that reflect America itself. PARIS IS BURNING is an intimate portrait of one urban community, a world in which the allure of high fashion, status and ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Fernando F. Croce Slant	"Livingston’s preference for feeling over exoticism secures an ultimately hopeful study of the search for personal wholeness (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"This is America (...) And 'Paris Is Burning' catches the sadly hollow spectacle with acuity, wit and intelligence."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Nothing dates like fashion (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Noel Murray AV Club	"The liveliness of those performances ups 'Paris Is Burning's rewatchability, as does the way (...) it preserves a remarkable, exotic little world."	POS
United Kingdom	Patrick Peters Empire	"A revealing snapshot of an American counterculture whose political subtext is as intriguing as its camp content (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Katie Walsh Los Angeles Times	"[A] wildly entertaining, deeply humanitarian and fundamentally educational film"	POS

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