Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards

A must see for fashion fans. The imagery and animations are a wonderful touch and paint a fascinating picture of Manolo and his career. Iconic and well-known industry voices and celebrities discuss their relationships and his life, interlaced with interviews, dramatisations, old photos and recent events. He is a fascinating individual and the scenes showing the factories and his sketching are a great insight into his work and process. Overall, an artistic and engrossing feel-good documentary film - not something you see every day.

If you're into fashion and really interested into this style of practice, than you certainly must watch and will enjoy this documentary. It's the fashion biography documentary about the Spanish fashion designer Manolo Blahnik. It talks about his life, his career and his work.

To be honest, I'm not quite interested in fashion, but I got to say that this documentary is amazing. Besides fashion, it's about Manolo himself. He's really one cheerful and interesting human being, unique, absolute genius, funny, charming and kind. He has charisma and a really great personality. There're lots of celebrities and magazine editors, who have worked with Manolo, commenting about his work and great personality. Also the beautiful animation, design and music sets this colorful, dynamic and rhythmic tone and atmosphere throughout the documentary. The only problem that had bothered me, in some moments and occasions, the pacing and editing were a bit off and went too fast. But other than that, it's brilliant.

8/10

"Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards" is a Documentary - Biography movie in which we follow the life of Manolo Blahnik, the man who is considered by many people the most influential fashion figure and also the best shoe-maker of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Since I didn't have high hopes or expectations from this movie I wasn't disappointed by it and I would consider this film as an average or even below average documentary. I believe that "Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards" is a boring documentary in which we watch a lot of people talking about Manolo Blahnik and of course himself about his work but I felt that they really don't know anything about real life. I don't recommend this documentary to anyone and I believe that even if you are a fan of those fashion icons and a fan of Manolo Blahnik you will waste your time watching it.

BORING. While I enjoyed hearing about his interesting childhood, and he seems like a creative and nice person to know; I wanted to see more of his creative process. Not name dropping. They didn't even bother to label most of the people who appeared with their gushing testimonials after their first appearance--and if you blinked you missed it, apparently assuming we would all know who they were and where they fit in the fashion world. This was less a documentary about his shoes--or even him, and all too much about the people who know him--and wear his shoes. Given his lengthy career surely they could have discussed how he became so famous--how did he connect with so many well-known fashion designers early in his career?

The basic problem was that like most "celebrities", they can only talk about themselves and not the person they are supposed to be talking about. The only person I remember who actually shared stories about Mnalo himself was Anna Wintour, and her interview was the most interesting. If there was indeed more substance to this biography, it was overwhelmed by the self-congratulatory "here I am"! tone of most of the interviews, in which it was obvious that they were only there for their own moment on camera, not to celebrate the man they were there to actually talk about.

Overall the best part of the documentary was the clever animation. To put it bluntly this could have been far more interesting. While there was a segment showing him hands on in the factory, I for one would have liked to see more of this aspect of his business and process. This is a man who has spent most of his very successful career creating clever shoes (and honestly some are down-right ugly craft project worthy--juxtaposed with some genuinely beautiful and unique) for the wealthy. Why not at least show case the shoes? (I mean so you could actually see them)

This is a documentary that probably should not have been made. It's rather boring actually and filled with poseurs who have way too much time on their hands.

Manolo himself is marginally interesting as a personality, but it wears thing within 10 minutes.

The fashion icon after fashion icon interviews just solidify the idea that these people are clueless about real life and live in this really shallow bubble.

If his shoes are great, god bless. But the wiki entry of him is really all you need to know.