Love, Cecil

Love, Cecil is a documentary about Cecil Beaton, the British photographer, artist, set designer and costume designer. Across a career that brought him two Academy Awards for costume design, for Gigi and My Fair Lady, Beaton moved between magazines, the British court and the film industry, photographing and dressing some of the most recognized figures of his time. The film draws on archival material and on interviews with people who knew and worked with him, building a portrait of a man whose visual style reached well beyond any single medium.

Lisa Immordino Vreeland directed and produced the film, which runs 98 minutes and was released in 2017. Rupert Everett provides the narration over archival footage of Beaton, while Hamish Bowles, Leslie Caron, Isaac Mizrahi and David Hockney appear as themselves. It followed Immordino Vreeland's earlier documentary work on figures from the fashion and art worlds.

Audience response places the film in moderate territory: on IMDb it holds 7.2 from 323 votes, and on TMDB 6.4 from 12 votes. A critics' rating of 6.2 from 46 reviews sits below the IMDb figure, so reviewers were somewhat less enthusiastic than the users who rated it. The small vote counts on both platforms indicate a niche documentary rather than a widely seen release.