MAPPLETHORPE [NON-USA FORMAT PAL REGION 2 & 4] (DVD)

Description: ***PAL REGION 2 & 4***PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A REGION FREE DVD PLAYER & CAN WATCH PAL DVDS BEFORE PURCHASE. Will NOT play on standard US players. Ships by airmail from New Zealand. Brand new item that has never been played.BRAND NEW / NOT SEALED / IF YOU ARE IN THE USA PLEASE EMAIL TO CONFIRM YOU HAVE A REGION FREE DVD PLAYER, THIS WILL SPEED UP YOUR ORDER PROCESS.Robert Mapplethorpe’s portraits, images of calla lilies, and chronicles of New York City’s underground BDSM scene remain touchstones of 20th-century photography even now, nearly three decades after his death from complications of HIV/AIDS in 1989. Mapplethorpe revisits the titular photographer’s legacy, beginning at the moment just before he takes up residence in the Chelsea Hotel. There, Mapplethorpe begins to amass a portfolio of images—and, at the same time, to explore his formerly supressed attraction to men. But Mapplethorpe’s relentless ambition—as he says in one early scene, “I can’t just be Mapplethorpe the photographer,” fancying himself a “modern Michelangelo”—threatens to tear apart the relationships he cherishes the most.From the early ’70s until his untimely death at age 42, the film explores the intersection of his art and his sexuality, his struggle for mainstream recognition, and, looming above it all, the specter of the emerging AIDS crisis. Featuring Matt Smith (Doctor Who, The Crown) and Marianne Rendón, the biopic offers a nuanced portrait of an artist at the height of his craft and of the self-destructive impulses that threaten to undermine it all.

Price: 9.9 USD

Location: Upper Hutt, Wellington

End Time: 2025-01-26T23:30:44.000Z

Shipping Cost: 6.99 USD