Vidal Sassoon: The Movie: Review

9:21 PM PDT 10/14/2010 by John DeFore

The documentary is an entertaining and comprehensive account of the once-ubiquitous hairstylist's career, though it tends to overstate the importance of its subject.

NEW YORK -- Almost comically overconvinced of the importance of its subject -- one of its first sound bites suggests "it's impossible to overestimate his importance"; later interviewees describe his "epic level" creativity and compare his "war" against stodgy hairstyling trends to World War II -- Vidal Sassoon: The Movie is nonetheless entertaining and comprehensive in its account of the man's career.