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Looking for Light: Jane Bown

Documentary


The critical consensus

For anyone interested in the art of "getting the picture", this is a must.

***(*)(*)Patrick Peters, Empire Online, 21/04/2014

This gentle, no-frills doc eschews music to let the images do the talking – Bown’s striking snaps are the real stars.

***(*)(*)Josh Winning, Total Film, 21/04/2014

The absence of music or some clarifying narration makes this an interesting but somewhat bleak portrait of a self-effacing professional.

***(*)(*)Allan Hunter, Daily Express, 25/04/2014

With its interviews and talking-heads format, it is closer to a TV arts programme than to film-making for the big screen.

***(*)(*)Geoffrey MacNab, The Independent, 24/04/2014

It is an excellent, intelligent, and unfussily traditional documentary.

****(*)Leslie Felperin, The Guardian, 24/04/2014

Bown's life and work are explored in a wistful documentary about this newspaper's distinguished portrait photographer.

***(*)(*)Mark Kermode, The Observer, 27/04/2014

Unfortunately Bown herself is not terribly revealing.

***(*)(*)Siobhan Synnot, The Scotsman, 08/06/2014

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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