
Synopsis
What you will find in this film
Bettina Rheims' studio in Paris • Her work with models • Her quest for beauty • How a good photo is born • Her first photographic work • Serge Bramly's analysis • The secrets of her most loyal collaborator • The discovery of enlargements with her printer • The links between her photography and death • The legendary photo shoot with Catherine Deneuve • Backstage at her Shanghai series • Her views of the grand retrospective of her work in Düsseldorf
Film chapters
00:00 The most important: beauty
09:40 A perpetual imbalance
18:38 The shoot, conflicting emotions
28:55 Privacy and death
37:03 In the viewfinder, life
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• DÉTENUES - artist: Bettina Rheims ; author: Nadeije Laneyrie-Dagen ; introduction: Robert Badinter ; 2018 ; Gallimard ; French
• BETTINA RHEIMS: CO - directed by Patrick Remy ; 2017 Taschen ; multilingual
• GENDER STUDIES - artist: Bettina Rheims ; 2014 ; Steidl Verlag
• ROSE, C’EST PARIS - authors: Bettina Rheims, Serge Bramly and Thierry Grillet ; exhibition catalogue presented at the Bibliothèque nationale de France ; 2010 ; Taschen France ; trilingual edition
• CHAMBRE CLOSE - artist: Bettina Rheims ; author: Serge Bramly ; 2007 ; Schirmer Mosel
• SHANGHAÏ - artist: Bettina Rheims ; author: Serge Bramly ; 2004 ; PowerHouse Books
• FEMALE TROUBLE - artist: Bettina Rheims ; introduction: Catherine Deneuve ; 2002 ; Schirmer Mosel
• I.N.R.I. - artist: Bettina Rheims ; author: Serge Bramly ; 1999 ; The Monacelli Press
• ANIMAL - artist: Bettina Rheims ; author: Serge Bramly ; 1998 ; Gina Kehayoff Verlag
• MODERN LOVERS - artist: Bettina Rheims ; 1998 ; Edition Braus