Change Your Image
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Reviews
Hollywood Hair (2012)
a scruffy, sweet postcard of broken dreams
Documentaries generally fall into two categories: just-the-facts-ma'am Jack Webb verite, or subjective, immersive me-and-my-camera-wanna-tell-you-a-story stories. In between the cracks, you find wonderful docs like Hollywood HAIR that achieve a kind of stumbled-upon poetry. Following the driftwood patrons of a Tinseltown barber shop and its hairdressers, Hollywood HAIR unfolds like a packet of long-lost love letters to those wide-eyed, open-hearted dreamers just off the bus and the aging ingénues whose glamor shots have faded in their frames. Filmmaker Juliet Snowden whittles down years of footage into an essential document about perception and reality, about looking the part and parting with the look that will never be achieved, though many die trying. A sweet, elliptical and lyrical film.