Whitney Sudler-Smith: Dilettante Buffoon

[SunnyBeBe]

Peacock+ is featuring the documentary Ultrasuede: In Search Of Halston, that was produced by Whitney a number of years ago.  He doesn’t really seem to be in interested in the topic.  He also seems so uncomfortable under his skin.  

[realityplease]

On 3/31/2015 at 2:45 PM, Booger666 said:

Since Whitney is bragging about his film making success I thought I would share this quote from a review of Ultrasuede by Rodrigo Perez for The Playlist. He describes Whitney as "an irritating charisma vacuum of a personality, incapable of possessing chemistry with an interview subject ". Perez also says the film is "Inept, amateurish and . . . generally an embarrassing effort. Not because its subject isn’t worth documenting (quite the opposite actually), but because its creator is a dilettante buffoon; a clownish self-involved figure who inexplicably positions himself as the focus of the film, and yet has no business making movies of any kind." Perez nailed it!

True in 2015, still true today!  Apparently in Whit's case, once a "dilettante buffoon," always a dilettante buffoon.  This is what happens when you have pots of inherited money - but no direction, interests or developed skill - and no interest in putting in the effort to obtain them.

[bosawks]

It is totally worth watching just to see that everyone kinda hates him.

[SunnyBeBe]

1 hour ago, realityplease said:

True in 2015, still true today!  Apparently in Whit's case, once a "dilettante buffoon," always a dilettante buffoon.  This is what happens when you have pots of inherited money - but no direction, interests or developed skill - and no interest in putting in the effort to obtain them.

Yeah.  This piece is hysterical.  Lol. And, I used to tolerate Whit pretty well.  I had no idea!  
 

https://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/lowbrow-highlights-in-search-of-the-horrible-documentary-directed-by-whitney-from-southern-charm/