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"I thought the section on Marilyn might skew the whole thing," Kidron reflects, "but it is the point where Eve reveals herself best. It's a softer view of the world - and I don't mean that in a bad sense. In such a harsh world, it's a very refreshing thing to see the revealing of someone She's not in the business of stitching people up. Now photography is more often an opportunity to make your mark on someone's face rather than reveal their inner soul."The film goes into meticulous detail about the bonds Arnold forms with her subjects: Malcolm X, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, and most notably, Marilyn Monroe. "She's not looking to expose, nor even to explain, but to reveal. She captures images of famous people extraordinarily off-guard, and her pictures of ordinary people are so revealing." Think of Marilyn Monroe looking pensive in the Nevada desert on the set of the Misfits, or Malcolm X caught in profile with his trademark hat rakishly tilted forward."A close cousin to that is her humanity," Kidron continues.

The stories behind the snaps vivify them.Kidron also uses slo-mo scenes from the hang of Arnold's show in New York to infuse the film with a sense of action "I used the exhibition as a living thing," she remembers. "The sense of things being chosen and put up gives the film more motion. The other thing I did was use interviews with people I stopped on the street in New York and asked about Eve's pictures I decided against either experts or critics. They are already available to interested people in their columns and radio shows. I wanted to show how Eve affects people and felt it was a very live way of looking at some of the pictures."There are certainly some vivacious vox pop reactions to Arnold's photograph of Vanessa Redgrave's bare bottom, but the person on the Manhattan omnibus also comes up with some astute analysis. Admiring one portrait, a man marvels: "it's not like a pose... it's like she just happened upon it."Kidron resisted the urge to crop the pictures judgementally.