What a waste of my time!!!

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The documentary itself was great in many ways- the story-telling, film, interviews and insights about the nature of the relationships between each person involved with the production of the magazine issue. I was most struck by Anna W...walking from place to place, person to person with a constant 'puss' on her face. Always ready to dish out demeaning and cutting remarks. The first shot of the film was a surprise to me, I was not aware of Anna before this film, and when I heard this woman speak her ideas, I immediately thought this person is totally clueless about her class and about the distorted view of the world she had. As the film went on, it became noticeable that the majority of the people she interacts with are white people, rich white people. I also observed the sheer amount of power she has.This is not feminism folks, this is a woman who assumed the role of her past male predecessor, and combined them with her own seeming delusions of being royalty- the Folie of this delusion is that *everyone* helps make it happen by kissing her ass:they defer, they submit. This woman is exactly what is wrong with how people use their power. Her use of power appears to be based in supporting exclusivity, inequality and exploitation. To see her complete clueless-ness about people who live outside of her vacuum of sycophantic/terrified underlings. I felt turned off completely by this documentary- the entitlement, the implied nepotism (wants daughter in the industry), the seriousness given to the issue of fashion and the denial of the 'real' world outside of the fashion bubble. This doc to me, exposed a superficial world that is characterized by some of the ugliest uses of power, amazing disrespect and dis-ingenuity.

In this documentary we follow Vogue editor Anna Wintour and her colleagues through their sleek Manhattan offices, beautifully appointed homes, European catwalks and design houses and photo shoots as they meticulously assemble the contents of the titular September issue that is supposed to be the most important of the year. After about a half an hour of chic fashionistas going through their paces (examining fabrics and photos, judging color schemes, sipping various liquids, gliding around big cities in chauffeured limos) it starts to get dull and repetitious and we can better appreciate the genius of the 2006 comedy The Devil Wears Prada which took the same basic set of people, heightened their personalities, spiced up their interrelationships, infused drama and plot into their routine professional activities and served up a sumptuously entertaining satire on the world of haute couture while also educating the general public about the nuts, bolts and economic and cultural role of that enterprise. There is far too much ennui and unoriginal glimpses behind the scenes which have been well covered in other documentaries and on countless televised celebrity magazine programs. Every once in a while there is a worthwhile insight, such as Wintour's description of the social atmosphere of London in the 1960s, a time of deep change, which formed her. She is certainly cool and reserved, but not the Ice Queen that Meryl Streep played in the fictionalized version. If anything, the point of this documentary would seem to be the humanization of Miss Wintour. By the time the fabled September issue starts rolling off the presses, all we can do is shrug.

I've seen others that have said you don't need to care about fashion to get into this, well I assure you that isn't true. I am the first to admit I am a terrible dresser. I don't care about it in the least & find it to be extremely annoying and pointless to the extent where I should care at least a little. In fact my sister would love to stick me on that show "What Not to Wear." It's well done, looks good, & Anna Wintour seems like she would be an interesting lady. However if you don't care at least a little bit about fashion I would be very surprised if you like this. I watched the whole thing & found it not only tedious but extremely boring. Again that says nothing about how the movie was done, just the subject matter. If you love Fashion Magazines such as "Vogue" then I have a feeling this will be very interesting to you.

I was interested in this movie for two reasons: one, because I love fashion and everything it stands for, and two, because I wanted to see Anna Wintour's persona in a movie other than The Devil Wears Prada, which, I suspected, might have painted her a little bit darker than she really is.The movie is not disappointing. It a great documentary, with lots of great music. You have a feeling that it shows the industry for what it really is: it doesn't add and it doesn't remove anything. If it's really that close to the truth, only people from the industry can tell.The movie doesn't have a specific plot -since it's a documentary- but it focuses around the process of putting together the September issue of Vogue. A lot of staff is shown, in their daily habitat, in between clothes, photographers, make-up flying everywhere. They're not shown as people who are too sure about their jobs: they love them, of course, but there is a lot of insecurity in their actions. What I really enjoyed about the movie was its lightness. Wintour is depicted as a delightful, professional person, rather quiet, not too bitchy, not too shy. She definitely knows what she wants: she points shots that need to be removed from the photoshoot, she vetoes decisions stylists around her make, and she just goes forward with a great deal of sureness and confidence. That confidence adds a lot of comfort to the movie, and isn't cold at the same time.Overall, the movie will be probably raved about mostly by fashion addicts like myself. It's not a necessary position to have or to watch, but its certain wisdom makes the experience enjoyable, and for that, I truly recommend it.