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Dir: Bruce Weber.
Cast: Peter Johnson, Frances Faye, Diana Vreeland
Description: Chop Suey is a compendium of reminiscences by renowned photographer Bruce Weber. At the film's heart is Weber's photographic love affair with Peter Johnson, a striking handsome 16-year-old wrestler from Minnesota, who features heavily in the artist's photographs. The documentary also pays tribute to '50s and '60s lounge singer Frances Faye, Brazilian wrestling champion Rickson Gracie, British explorer Sir Wilfred Thesiger, fashion doyenne Diana Vreeland, actor Jan-Michael Vincent and screen veteran Robert Mitchum, who Weber photographed in 1974 and 1994.
Country: US. 2000. 98mins
Vanity project? Chop Suey is a fresco of interviews and images
Bruce Weber, maker of Let's Get Lost, the recently re-released film about jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, takes a loving look at Peter Johnson, the ex-wrestler from Wisconsin who became his favourite male model, in this freeform documentary about his life and times as a fashion photographer. Lesbian jazz singer Frances Faye, Jan Michael Vincent, robert Mitchum and Judy Garland also feature, along with a Brazilian jujitsu champion called Gracie.
Chop Suey is a fresco of interviews, archival footage, reflections and images that could easily be called a vanity project if it wasn't so intriguing. Some of the best moments have Weber discussing photography with other aces of the genre. Others have surprisingly honest interviews with celebrities he has worked with. Johnson, an amiable heterosexual, says "wow" rather a lot and wonders why Weber sometimes dressed him up as a woman. I'd say the answer to that was rather obvious.
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