If One Thing Matters: A Film About Wolfgang Tillmans

If One Thing Matters: A Film About Wolfgang Tillmans (2008)

  • 17% of critics liked it
    (6 reviews)

  • 75% of users liked it
    (37 ratings)

An artistic prodigy to end all, German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans rose to fame in the 1990s, when the then-twentysomething began capturing iconic images of nightclub activity and culture time and again. His celebrity increased substantially via inclusion in such high-end publications as Spex,… More

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Sep 18, 2009 Wide
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Critic Reviews

  • Neil Genzlinger, New York Times

    It's like choking down 72 minutes of a stranger's unedited home videos, only without the occasional cute kiddie or pet to lighten the tedium.

  • S. James Snyder, Time Out New York

    The risk of such hands-off filmmaking is that the narrative itself can become mired in the mundane; there's little that happens here to shed light on the way this renowned shutterbug works or thinks.

  • Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice

    It does little to convince the unconverted of Tillmans's [genius].

  • John P. McCarthy, Boxoffice Magazine

    Heiko Kalmbachâ(TM)s video portrait of the German-born, London-based photographer frustrates because of the way it hovers between the esoteric and the quotidian.

  • Avi Offer, NYC Movie Guru

    A dull, meandering, lazy and poorly-edited documentary that fails to be captivating and insightful. [U]ltimately a missed opportunity.

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