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We’ll Take Manhattan explores the explosive love affair between photographer David Bailey and sixties supermodel Jean Shrimpton. This drama brings to life the story of two young people falling in love, misbehaving, and inadvertently defining the style of the Sixties along the way. We’ll Take Manhattan is a drama that is all about being alive and taking a chance, being young and kicking down the statues, and yet it is also a beautiful love story, It’s the story of that wild week, of Bailey and Jean's love affair, and of how two young people accidentally changed the world of fashion forever.
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2.4 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Anamorphic Widescreen, Behind the scenes, Commentary, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: In 1962 budding young photographer David Bailey gets a fifteen guinea contract working for 'Vogue' magazine. For his first shoot,an Acrylan advert, he picks inexperienced teenage model Jean Shrimpton, who has left home to escape a bullying father and moves in with Bailey, despite his having a wife. When the magazine launches its Young Ideas feature, to capture a youth readership, Bailey and Jean are sent on a photo shoot to New York with the magazine's fashion editor Lady Clare Rendlesham. Lady Clare is incensed when Bailey defies her orders and shoots impressively unorthodox photos of his nervous muse, demanding his removal from the magazine. Vogue editor Ailsa Garland, however, recognises the innovative nature of Bailey's work and over-rules Lady Clare, giving rise to one of the most famous partnerships of the Swinging Sixties. ...We'll Take Manhattan ( We Will Take Manhattan )
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Great movie if you were around in the sixties like me you will love this movie,
A good story a about how David Bailey and Jean Shrimpton became sixties icons,
A golden decade of revolutiony youth fashions and music and this is where it all started a decade which lifted teenage fashion and music out of the doldrums and this movie does not a have dull moment in it !
A good story a about how David Bailey and Jean Shrimpton became sixties icons,
A golden decade of revolutiony youth fashions and music and this is where it all started a decade which lifted teenage fashion and music out of the doldrums and this movie does not a have dull moment in it !
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This is the story of the whirlwind rise to fame of David Bailey and Jean Shrimpton. It takes us from their early beginning to the massive breakthrough of David Baileys photography, following the photo shoot in New York for Vogue.
Beautifully filmed, we are taken from the dusty photographs and fashion of the fifties, into the sixties style of bright young fashion and confidence, freed from the cliches of the past.
We see the youth, and indeed, arrogance, of Bailey (Aneurin Barnard) pursuing photography his way, pushing aside the staid Vogue editor who doesn't yet realise that times are indeed about to change.
Any film with Karen Gillian aboard, is almost bound to delight, and here she doesn't dissappoint as Jean Shrimpton - beautiful, stylish and vulnerable, finding her feet in a profession where she doesn't fit the model stereotypes; moving into the world of fashion which doesn't sit comfortably with the expectations of her family, eventually causing her to have to choose one over the other.
It's a wild exciting ride - tense from the break-through from old traditions, but then moving into the tension, war even, between Bailey and his well-to-do Vogue minder (impecabbly played by Helen McCory) desperate to maintain her authority and keep the status-quo in place.
Bailey is entirely infatuated with Shrimpton and their love affair forms the backdrop to the story and you are only too painfully aware that Shrimpton is the batlefield between the old and new, vulnerable because of her love for Bailey, and as a young model caught in the crossfire between the older rich and powerful paymaster and the young and relatively unknown photographer.
The fact that it's based on real people, supposedly as accurate as it could be and has received tacit approval from Bailey and Shrimpton, makes this story all the more remarkable.
If the story wasn't enough, the 1960's New York backdrop doesn't dissappoint, bringing sixties style to the screen in a way only New York could.
Not to be missed - witness the change from the old to the new, before your very eyes.
Beautifully filmed, we are taken from the dusty photographs and fashion of the fifties, into the sixties style of bright young fashion and confidence, freed from the cliches of the past.
We see the youth, and indeed, arrogance, of Bailey (Aneurin Barnard) pursuing photography his way, pushing aside the staid Vogue editor who doesn't yet realise that times are indeed about to change.
Any film with Karen Gillian aboard, is almost bound to delight, and here she doesn't dissappoint as Jean Shrimpton - beautiful, stylish and vulnerable, finding her feet in a profession where she doesn't fit the model stereotypes; moving into the world of fashion which doesn't sit comfortably with the expectations of her family, eventually causing her to have to choose one over the other.
It's a wild exciting ride - tense from the break-through from old traditions, but then moving into the tension, war even, between Bailey and his well-to-do Vogue minder (impecabbly played by Helen McCory) desperate to maintain her authority and keep the status-quo in place.
Bailey is entirely infatuated with Shrimpton and their love affair forms the backdrop to the story and you are only too painfully aware that Shrimpton is the batlefield between the old and new, vulnerable because of her love for Bailey, and as a young model caught in the crossfire between the older rich and powerful paymaster and the young and relatively unknown photographer.
The fact that it's based on real people, supposedly as accurate as it could be and has received tacit approval from Bailey and Shrimpton, makes this story all the more remarkable.
If the story wasn't enough, the 1960's New York backdrop doesn't dissappoint, bringing sixties style to the screen in a way only New York could.
Not to be missed - witness the change from the old to the new, before your very eyes.
Format:DVD
I never really gave David Bailey much of a thought when people mentioned him - being a 90's kid he came way before my day.
This all changed when I saw this docu-drama on the BBC which more or less explains how and why Bailey and Shrimpton became so famous.
Certainly a must watch for anyone interested in photography, or anyone who wants a snapshot on 1960s Britain/New York.
(I was also surprised at how well Karen Gillan acted the part - thankfully the constant shouting in Doctor Who is limited to the one show!)
10/10
This all changed when I saw this docu-drama on the BBC which more or less explains how and why Bailey and Shrimpton became so famous.
Certainly a must watch for anyone interested in photography, or anyone who wants a snapshot on 1960s Britain/New York.
(I was also surprised at how well Karen Gillan acted the part - thankfully the constant shouting in Doctor Who is limited to the one show!)
10/10
Most Recent Customer Reviews
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Published 6 days ago by thetruthshallsetyefree
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I am a photographer who worked through the 60s and 70s. David Bailey was always my muse. Fantastic recreation of NY in the late 60s & 70s.. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Barry A. Kinsella
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With a photographic background I was more than interested when this came up on the BBC. It is of it's time. It tells a story so well.
Published 3 months ago by swelburn
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