Fashion and socialites and hats: and yet every moment of this documentary gleamed with a joy that is the joy of living life with passion and ease, as does Bill Cunningham. The man is 80 years old and has been whisking around manhattan on his bicylce, morning, day, night, for decades, taking photographs of skirts and shoes and dresses and colors and the people who coincidentally wear them. Like a Zen Master who knows there's no such thing as enlightenment but only enlightening activity, he lives in a closet because "having a kitchen and dining room would be just two more rooms to clean." Instead of telling us that life is beautiful, Bill shows us, laughs, then gets on his bike to take more photos. A stupidly delightful film. A
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