Review: The documentary 'McQueen' captures both the designer's darkness and his astonishing ability to use it
by Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Jul 23, 2018
3 minutes
First came the actor, then the British director. But if you live and die for fashion, a documentary called "McQueen" could tell only one story, that of designer Alexander McQueen, whose extraordinary gifts, dark preoccupations and tragic death make for a completely engrossing, compulsively watchable film.
Even if the dramas and dictates of couturiers and catwalks mean little to you, it is hard to resist the propulsive energy that director Ian Bonhote and co-director and
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