Picture Me: A Model's Diary (2010)

55% of critics liked it
(11 reviews)
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(291 ratings)

Picture Me, a raw and personal video diary, charts model Sara Ziff's rise from fresh face to one that adorns billboards and magazines around the world. Ziff and filmmaker Ole Schell co-direct, lifting the veil on the world of high fashion modeling, from photo shoots with celebrated photographers to… More Picture Me, a raw and personal video diary, charts model Sara Ziff's rise from fresh face to one that adorns billboards and magazines around the world. Ziff and filmmaker Ole Schell co-direct, lifting the veil on the world of high fashion modeling, from photo shoots with celebrated photographers to runway shows in New York, Milan, and Paris. This intimate account features in-depth interviews with noted photographers and designers, and showcases personal footage shot by the models themselves, giving voice to those who are often seen, but rarely heard.-- (C) Strand

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Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 1 hr. 20 min.
Directed By: Ole Schell, Sara Ziff
Genres: Documentary, Drama, Special Interest

In Theaters: Sep 17, 2010 Limited
On DVD: Mar 1, 2011
Studio: Strand Releasing

Critic Reviews

John Anderson, Variety
Viewers will get a fairly frank look inside a profession where huge financial success doesn't require much more, as even Ziff's mother admits, than being "pretty and on time."
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Worthless as social commentary and clueless as a film.
Kyle Smith, New York Post
I have a lot of questions about models, but none is answered in this film by catwalker Sara Ziff and her boyfriend Ole Schell.
Rebecca Barry, Flicks.co.nz
[Ziff] has a breezy nature and openness in front of the camera,  which means we see her at her best and worst.
Glenn Heath Jr., Slant Magazine
Picture Me carries the annoying amateurish texture of most poorly shot student films.
Aaron Hillis, L.A. Weekly
A fruitless portrait of commonplace backstage reveals and indulgent mugging.
Kam Williams, NewsBlaze
A priceless primer on the flip side of strutting up the catwalk designed for impressionable young female minds fantasizing about becoming the next ingénue of the moment.
Tim Cogshell, Boxoffice Magazine
The result is a rather revealing film, not only about Sara and the choices she's made, but about the industry itself, with its contrasting pleasures and pressures.
David Noh, Film Journal International
This absorbing, highly personal documentary gives a stripped-down, inside look at a glamorous business, which can often be anything but.
Nick Schager, Time Out New York
This doc is an 82-minute series of nonbombshells: Models are pampered! They have body-image issues! And sometimes they have to contend with the unwanted sexual advances of male photographers!
Louis Proyect, rec.arts.movies.reviews
A terrific behind the scenes look at the not too glamorous world of runway models made by an uncommonly perceptive model and her filmmaker boyfriend.