Love, Cecil Provides a Closer Look at an Icon

Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s riveting documentary Love, Cecil: A Journey With Cecil Beaton elegantly bookends her earlier movies, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel (its subject the legendary Harper’s Bazaar editor, Vogue Editor in Chief, and Costume Institute doyenne who is also the grandmother of Lisa’s husband, Alexander) and Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict (which made great use of the recordings of the frank and revelatory conversations that the liberated art collectsor and proselytizer Guggenheim had in the late ’70s with her final biographer, Jacqueline B. Weld, which had been thought long lost).