If you like off-beat documentaries – possibly a non-sequitur when it comes to documentaries – Pretty Ugly (2014) may fit the bill. Or it may be one of the more clever bits of self-promotion that I’ve seen. Either way, it provoked a lot of conversation between myself and my Arts Editor, as the chronicles of how supposed dead-ender and self-described gargoyle Del Keens is trying to take his modeling outfit Misfit Models to success. A former model himself for Levi’s and other big firms, he knows the business and what he wants – and he’s definitely atypical.
And he and his models do tend to fascinate. Give it a shot if getting a look into an oddball nook of the modeling industry fascinates, along with a mini-bio of a dude who has had to struggle with societal bigotry in order to do anything at all.
