ItalianoHigh & Low: John Galliano
21 October 21:30
Giulio Cesare 1
Pub Acc
Festa del cinema
Synopsis
The designer John Galliano worked for years for Givenchy and Dior, revolutionizing the world of fashion, until his career came to a screeching halt in 2011, after he was caught on video making anti-Semitic and racial slurs. The film examines his downfall – and his comeback.
COMMENTARY
“I did something disgusting, something repugnant. It was horrible”, said John Galliano, creative director since 1996 of Maison Dior, for which he made his debut with the legendary collection Les incroyables, inspired by the French Revolution. Eccentric, inventive, provocative, cultured, his spectacular creations merged history, the myths of high fashion, literature, cinema, art, punk and clochard. Until in 2010 he was caught on camera in Paris in a café in the Marais district, indulging in a drunken anti-Semitic rant: that is the disgusting thing that Galliano refers to, though he remembers nothing of that moment. Which forced him out of the business.
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
I was looking for a way to make a film about what happens when famous people ‘transgress’ and understand how they deal with that experience and how they seek forgiveness from society. I was interested in making a documentary about what happens when you do something utterly unacceptable.
Director
Kevin Macdonald
Born in Glasgow in 1967, Kevin Macdonald has made over a dozen documentaries, such as the Oscar®-winning One Day in September and Touching the Void, awarded a BAFTA for Best British Film, as was his first narrative feature, The Last King of Scotland (with the Oscar® and BAFTA for Best Actor going to Forest Whitaker), followed by State of Play, The Eagle, How I Live Now, Black Sea, and The Mauritanian.