From a documentary stand point, this Oscar nominated film in the category of Documentary Feature is perhaps the best work I have ever seen. It has an excellent investigative script that captivates your interest right from start and until its very end. In fact, it leaves you wanting to have found out even more information, but resigned to the fact that it might take some more years before Vivian Maier’s whole story is finally understood. And you smile thinking that, even if not all the little remaining details about her life are resolved, the missing pieces in her puzzle would be, most likely, the ones tickling her fancy and making her smirk.
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- A stern, almost manly, nanny;
- An exquisite eye for beauty recognition in all its forms;
- A fake French accent;
- More than 100,000 undeveloped photographs;
- A secretive way of life,
- An insightful understanding of beauty in all that was sinister, ugly and mean;
- A compulsive accumulator;
- An obsessive cult for the bizarre in human nature,
- An eccentric approach about her own persona,
- A life spent capturing her own assessments about the world, and
- An extraordinary body of work.
A must-see! John Maloof, who found the photographs, has invested all his might in this labor of love to make Vivian Maier’s work not just to be seen but to become renowned as one of the finest street photographers of the XX century.