Scatter My Ashes At Bergdorf's (2013)
Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 17
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 9
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Average Rating: 5.8/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 5
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It's the most mythic of all American emporiums and the scene of many an ultimate fashion fantasy. Now audiences get a rarified chance to peek behind the backroom doors and into the reality of the fascinating inner workings and fabulous untold stories from Bergdorf Goodmans iconic history in Matthew Mieles Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's. (c) EOne
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All Critics (17) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (9)
Jumps skittishly from subject to subject, disjointed and repetitive for all but dyed-in-the-wool fashionistas.
Top CriticThere's so much material that's amusing, and so much goodwill for Bergdorf in the hearts of fashion lovers, that it's a shame this is such an ADD sprawl of a movie.
[A] glossy, fawning valentine to conspicuous consumption ...
Though partly funded by one of the descendants of the store's founder, director Matthew Miele has made a lively, clever, fast-moving film that isn't overly reverential about its subject.
The energy in "Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's"-what a great title!-is genuine, infectious and superabundant.
Granted, not every documentary is necessarily required to dig up dirt and say awful things, but the overbearing gush gets tiresome.
It's like a vanity project for - well, who, exactly? I could barely sit through the whole film; I can't imagine wandering the aisles of this puffed-up emporium.
Shallow, tedious and, worst of all, boring.
An obnoxious documentary asking us to bow down in homage to a temple of the very rich where conspicuous consumerism is worshipped.
...even in my anticipation I could not have realized how entertaining this is, clearly one of the most entertaining films of the year.
Fashionistas will kvell over this paean to the Mecca of Materialism.
A modestly amusing celebration of a store, and consumption at its most conspicuous.
Matthew Miele has made a department store of a documentary, stocked to the hilt with an obscene inventory of storylines, talking heads, and utterly tasteless choices.
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