Looking For Light: Jane Bown
Director: Luke Dodd, Michael Whyte
Rating: 4/5
2014 has already been a terrific year for documentary film lovers, and Looking for Light: Jane Bown is another that is not to be missed.
A moving portrait of the photographer Jane Bown: her quiet determination working in an almost exclusively male world; her unique working method; how the sorrow of her early childhood informed her unique photographic style.
It includes interviews with Rankin, Edna O’Brien and Don McCullin as well as the many iconic photographs by Jane that span her six decade career including her portraits of Samuel Beckett, Mick Jagger, Queen Elizabeth II and Bjork, to mention a few.
For anyone who is a photographer or is a fan of the art form then this is a movie that is not to be missed, as this movie takes you into Bown's world and you see how she works and captures such exquisite images.
And it is her images that really are the stars and the standout moments of the movie.
Bown may have worked with a whole host of the world's greatest stars, but don't think you will be getting any gossip from her about the actors and musicians she has photographed.
Looking For Light is very much a film about the woman behind the camera, and it is a very fascinating character study.
There is a very intimate feel to this movie, as we learn more about Bown's life as well as her extinguished career.
Looking For Light: Jane Bown is beautifully shot and is as visually stunning as it is interesting - her photography really will leave you in awe: she has captured some beautiful images during her lengthy career.
This is a sincere documentary that informs as well as entertains. Anyone involved in photography just has to see this movie. Terrific stuff!!!
Looking For Light: Jane Bown is out now.