SRF - Riviera Cocktail: Edward Quinn, Photographer (2006)
DVDRip | 1024x576 | .MKV/AVC @ 2550 Kbps | 1 h 37 min | 1.82 GiB
Audio: English AAC 128 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None
Genre: Documentary
A delightful film about the Irish photographer Edward Quinn (1920-1997), who shot some of the most iconic photographs of the 20th Century's glitterati. Quinn was a fixture on the French Riviera during the so-called golden 1950s, when the area's great hotels and casinos returned to top form after the ravages of WWII. Quinn was witness to the Riviera's partylife and at the epicentre of its glitz and glamour. The film recounts a dazzling era of stars, starlets, film producers, playboys, princes and artists such as Picasso. By the end of the decade, Quinn had created a body of work that reflected the very essence of those heady days.
In 1949 Edward Quinn was barely surviving as a photographer until he finally realizedthat he could make a living out of his fascination with the beautiful, the rich, and the famous on the Cote d'Azur. He soon built up a network of helpful barmen, secretaries, bellhops and service staff at luxury hotels along the coast. Calling himself "Edward Quinn, Photographer, Nice," he launched his lifelong career, which, seen through the lens of time, can at last be interpreted and enjoyed as an invaluable photographic evocation of a lost world.
1950s French Riviera: a haven for movie stars who came to the Cannes Film Festival and then stayed on. Away from agents and studio heads, they could relax with their families and spend their days by the pool at the famous Eden Roc, or exploring the tiny sunbaked villages along the coastline. In the evenings there was a glittering choice of events—gala nights, the Sporting d'Ete, or dinner and dancing at Les Ambassadeurs in Cannes.
Irish photographer Edward Quinn stepped, by accident, into this international society when visiting a friend in Monte Carlo a few years after the war. He fell in love with the Cote d'Azur and realised he might make his living photographing the stars taking their ease, off the screen. The stars he photographed are names that are a roll call of cinematic artistocracy: Garbo, Taylor, Brando, Grant, Peck, Bergman, Hayworth, Hepburn, Cooper, Welles, Loren, Lollobrigida, Dietrich…and of course Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier.
No other photographer has captured the far-flung social and cultural life of the Cote d'Azur in the fifties with such intelligent verve and remarkably gentle irony as the Irishman Edward Quinn . For over a decade, Quinn showed a perfect blend of persistence and discretion in his daring exploration of the social jungle on the French Riviera. In this iridescent epicenter of high life and big business, of art, music and literature, he managed to discover incomparable gems. Riviera Cocktail encompasses an entire age, tracing the path followed by Edward Quinn from his early pin-up photography to his unconventional portrayal of all the great stars and, finally, to his relationships, as a photographer, with Pablo Picasso and Georg Baselitz.
In their soundtrack, Franco Ambrosetti and his band "European Legacy" enter into an exhilarating and compelling dialogue with Quinn's visual universe, combining the contemporary with the nostalgic in a compellingly musical compliment to an age that has gone down in history as the "Golden Fifties."
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