Beautopia

In spite of endless footage of models walking, riding and flying and the unnecessary narration of producer-writer-director Katharina Otto, this documentary about the making of a supermodel delivers the goods. The film opens with a tangential, precious montage of Otto and the story of how she first got interested in models. Then the credits roll and the real film begins: Four "new discoveries" with "important futures" will be followed as they fly between New York, Hamburg and Milan in a race to make it in the world of modeling. The girls are evaluated, coached, made over, encouraged and rejected in a series of meetings with agents, bookers and designers. One girl won...