This is a documentary about HN and his work, driven by some short BTS and interview sequences shot in LA, Monte Carlo and Berlin. The main focus of the film is the models - how Newton chooses them, why they stalk him for being portrayed and how his former famous models like Karl Lagerfeld, Catherine Deneuve, Charlotte Rampling and Faye Dunaway experienced the sessions with Newton (and in most cases) experienced this work as revealing for themselves and the rest of the world. It also throws a spotlight on Newton's obsessions with vouyeurism, lingerie, high-heels, nipples and tall women in special and personal childhood memories in general. It also becomes obvious, that Newton was sly in avoiding to pay his models by simply exploiting his own fame as a photographer - a strictly commercial artist he was.
Review of Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge
