Advanced Style

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Colorful, witty, and uplifting, Advanced Style celebrates life and pays tribute to those who flout convention. Read critic reviews

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Movie Info

Personal style and a vital spirit guides the lives of seven New Yorkers as they age.

Genre:

documentary, biography, comedy
Original Language:

English
Director:

Lina Plioplyte
Producer:

Ari Cohen
Writer:

Ari Cohen, Lina Plioplyte
Release Date (Streaming):

Aug 10, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA):

$6.5K
Runtime:

1h 13m

Cast & Crew

Iris Apfel

Joyce Carpati

Simon Doonan

Ricki Lake

Debra Rapoport

Dita Von Teese

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Critic Reviews for Advanced Style

All Critics (38) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (34) | Rotten (4)

A highly enjoyable glance at Gotham's veteran haute couturists.

May 10, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Anna Smith
Empire Magazine
They reject the youth-culture diktat that age makes you invisible, and offer us all an example of self-acceptance.

December 19, 2014 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…

Robert Everett-Green
Globe and Mail
"Advanced Style" is appropriately fun, frivolous and baroquely ornamented by its subjects who sing, perform, model and occasionally sound like teenagers, while dressing a lot better.

October 16, 2014 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

John Anderson
Newsday
The way the women occupy Cohen and Plioplyte's spotlight is a lesson in aging well, a lesson that begins with the refusal to play by the rule that says to grow older, especially for women, is to fade into the shadows.

October 16, 2014 | Full Review…

Sheri Linden
Los Angeles Times
There are several candidates for the title of Most Ebullient but the clear winner is Lynn Dell Cohen, 81, the self-described Countess of Glamour.

October 10, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Sandra Hall
Sydney Morning Herald
These women are living life to the fullest - and they are inviting us to do the same.

October 9, 2014 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

David Lewis
San Francisco Chronicle
Fashion is the movie's McGuffin, the thing that brings all these people together and bonds them, but it's the women's spirit and their attitude to aging that informs every minute of this documentary.

February 2, 2021 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Richard Crouse
Richard Crouse
Short but sweet, Advanced Style goes some way towards reclaiming high fashion for all ages and background.

March 21, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Daniel Green
CineVue
Personally, I would be hard-pressed to find anything better than Bill Cunningham New York (which if you haven't seen, you must do so immediately), however Advanced Style does a fantastic job with its subjects and story.

November 8, 2018 | Full Review…

Morgan Rojas
Cinemacy
At turns bold, brash, vulnerable, and heartbreakingly honest, these veterans of the concrete jungle trust and confide in the camera in ways that few interview subjects are brave enough to attempt.

August 11, 2017 | Full Review…

Emily Rems
Bust Magazine
The film struggles to sustain its length, too, but there is much to enjoy.

May 16, 2016 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Peter Calder
New Zealand Herald
Veering away from these women's style-philosophies, witticisms, families, health concerns, or their pasts, the doc becomes promotional and proselytizing. Personalities get camera-brushed into commercial gloss, a simplistic patina of fashionability.

May 25, 2015 | Full Review…

Brian Gibson
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)

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