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Filmmaker Craig Teper offers a look into the public and private life of a man who 'changed the world with a pair of scissors' in the documentary VIDAL SASSOON: THE MOVIE. Featuring exclusive interviews with Mary Quant, Michael Gordon, and William Claxton as well as Sassoon and his family.Product Identifiers
ProducerMichael Gordon, Jackie Gilbert Bauer
EAN5055159278065
eBay Product ID (ePID)102167974
Product Key Features
Film/TV TitleVidal Sassoon-The Movie
DirectorCraig Teper
Release Year2011
FormatDVD
LanguageEnglish
FeaturesTrailer\Deleted Scenes\Interviews\Music Featurette\Audio Commentary\Behind the Scenes
GenreDocumentaries & Biographies, Biographies, General
Run Time90 Mins
Additional Product Features
CertificatePG
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
Number of Discs1
ComposerSteven Griesgraber
Additional InformationVidal Sassoon is the world's best-known hairdresser, and one who radically changed the way many people thought about hair styling when he rose to fame in the 1960s. But Sassoon had already lived a remarkable and adventurous life before his geometric 'wash and wear' hair styles became all the rage in Swinging London. Born in England to Jewish parents, he was part of a British anti-fascist group called the 43 Group, who battled organized anti-Semitism in the wake of World War II, and when his family relocated to Israel, he fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War as part of the Israeli Defense Force. In the 1950s, Sassoon returned to England and began pursuing a career cutting women's hair. Within a decade, his Bond Street salon would become a sensation, and after creating distinctive styles for such stars as Mia Farrow and Nancy Kwan, he became the most famous and influential man in his field. As his shop turned into a franchise and he launched a successful line of hair-care products, Sassoon proved he was a shrewd businessman as well as an artist, but despite finding fame and wealth his life has been marked by both triumph and tragedy. Filmmaker Craig Teper offers a look into the public and private life of a man who 'changed the world with a pair of scissors' in the documentary VIDAL SASSOON: THE MOVIE. Featuring exclusive interviews with Mary Quant, Michael Gordon, and William Claxton as well as Sassoon and his family.
ReviewsGuardian UK - Though you'd never have anticipated it, Vidal Sassoon emerges as an genuinely likable figure of some substance in this admittedly hagiographic documentary., Empire Magazine - Hardly hard-hitting but a thoughtful and spirited look at a man at the top of his game and a moment in time that refused to fade., New York Times - Vidal Sassoon: The Movie isn't just the story of a brilliant fashion idea that swept the globe. It is a euphoric account of one man's strenuous self-invention.
ScreenwriterCraig Teper, Heather Gordon
CinematographerCraig Teper, Saul Gittens Oxford
Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1
Movie/TV TitleVidal Sassoon - The Movie
SubjectVidal Sassoon
Consumer AdviceContains mild language, sex references and images of wartime casualties