MANOLO: THE BOY WHO MADE SHOES FOR LIZARDS

OUT 29 sepTember

Fashion veteran Michael Roberts’ portrait of shoe-designer Manolo Blahnik is a visual feast but a banquet of clichés. Ravishing shoe close-ups and endless praise for the celebrity cobbler get repetitive. However, the playful use of archive, animation and dramatised snippets of Blahnik’s hard-partying past give the film a fun, fizzy feel.