Charlotte Rampling: taboo breaker, style icon, world star and courageous avant-gardist. She was the Chelsea Girl at the 60s Swinging London. Visconti brought her to Italy to film The Damned. Her role in Liliana Cavani's The Night Doorman triggered a worldwide taboo debate. It inspired Helmut Newton to take his first nude photograph. In New York she impersonated the perfect woman for Woody Allen, in Hollywood she was on camera with Paul Newman. She had the pleasure of working with filmmakers such as Nagisa Oshima and François Ozon.
In nine chapters and encounters with companions and confidants such as Peter Lindbergh, Paul Auster or Juergen Teller, Charlotte Rampling explores topics such as age, beauty, taboo, desire, death and love. Thoughts, conversations, films, places and situations condense beyond all anecdotal retrospection to a multi-layered, exciting, in the best sense self-confident portrait of a charismatic woman and actress: THE LOOK becomes a view of life itself.
