Movie #903 "Finding Vivian Maier" was a wonderful movie, full of information on this very talented, but odd photographer. John Maloof, the young filmographer himself, put this film together after spending years piecing her life together from all the boxes and boxes of film roles he found in her storage locker. It starts with his brief story on how he bought some of the boxes at an auction, and then fell into the rest of her things. The images he uses to show what he knows in the film are very entertaining, so I never felt this documentary (like so many others) was slow or boring. It's almost a whodunnit, with Vivian's life the center of attention. You learn so much about her, yet there's so much more that's left unanswered. The film definitely made me want to know more and to see her work wherever I could in the future. I'm not sure I know much about good photography, but I loved every one of her pictures he showed us in this film. It made me want to see more and more. What a wonderful eye she had, and even as reclusive as she seems to have been, I think she would have enjoyed this retrospect on her work.
Finding Vivian Maier2013NR I would give it 5 out of 5 stars.
When longtime nanny Vivian Maier died in 2009, she left behind thousands of photo negatives that she'd produced over the years. But the now-famous shutterbug's unique body of work lay in storage until an amateur historian uncovered the trove.
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