Wim Wenders Joins Peter Lindbergh Doc 'Truth:Beauty' — SkimNews
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- Wim Wenders has boarded "Truth:Beauty," a feature documentary about Peter Lindbergh, as executive producer, with principal photography expected to begin before the end of the year.
- Alexandra Matine, a French novelist whose works include "Scopophilia" and "La Pire Amie du monde," is making her feature directorial debut and also writing the film.
- The project is being developed in partnership with the Peter Lindbergh Foundation, which is granting filmmakers full access to the photographer's archives, and is produced by Maja Hoffmann and Human Humans in association with Composite Films.
- Peter Lindbergh, who died in 2019 at age 74, was one of the most influential fashion photographers of his generation, credited with ushering in the era of the supermodel through black-and-white portraits that moved fashion imagery away from heavy stylization.
- Wenders and Lindbergh belonged to the same generation of German artists and shared a decades-long friendship — Lindbergh's 1993 Harper's Bazaar editorial "City of Angels" was directly inspired by Wenders' "Wings of Desire."
- The announcement follows the world premiere of Wenders' latest documentary "From Inside Out" at the Venice Film Festival.
- Producer Maja Hoffmann, who serves as president of the Locarno Film Festival, previously backed art-world documentaries including "Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present," "Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict" and "Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child."
Why it matters: The project unites two landmark German artists of the same generation and pairs Wenders' prestige-documentary pedigree (Palme d'Or, four Oscar nominations) with Lindbergh's full archive through the foundation, giving Matine a debut backed by a producer whose track record on major artist portraits stretches from Abramović to Basquiat.
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