Vidal Sassoon: The Movie: movie review
'Vidal Sassoon: The Movie' offers a carefully coiffed look into the life of the legendary hairdresser.
Less of a documentary than a testimonial, Craig Teper鈥檚 鈥�Vidal Sassoon: The Movie鈥� offers up a carefully coiffed look into the life of the legendary hairdresser. No doubt producer Michael Gordon鈥檚 recent coffee-table book on Sassoon is the perfect accessory to this sleek piece of hagiography.
Still, despite the film鈥檚 aura of sanctification, it manages to be fascinating anyway, largely because Sassoon鈥檚 accomplishments closely parallel the rise of corporate commercialism in the 1960s and '70s. Working his way out of poverty in London鈥檚 East End, he created, using not much more than a pair of scissors and a comb, not only a geometric 鈥渓ook鈥� that was a smash worldwide 鈥� think of Mia Farrow鈥檚 hair in 鈥淩osemary鈥檚 Baby鈥� 鈥� but also pioneered, if that鈥檚 the word, the celebrity-endorsed worldwide product line. He was the Beatles of the hair business. Grade: B- (Rated PG for some thematic elements, language, and smoking.)
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