As a lesson in the damaging effects poor guardianship can have on children, however, the film certainly makes its point.

A small, impressionistic, oddly heartfelt movie about beauty, stardom, adoration, exploitation, and loss.

his fascinating but dismally depressing Swedish documentary is well worth seeing, but never fully escapes the feeling that it's all been seen before.

This doesn’t make the leap from “DVD supplement” to its own film-object, but anyone curious for Visconti-related reasons will probably get something of value out of this.