Review by Mark Longden
Coming to a film festival near you, if you’re lucky, is this documentary about one of the world’s most famous jewellers. Counting people such as Catherine Zeta Jones, Elizabeth Hurley, Celine Dion and Liv Tyler among his more notable clients, Sevan Bıçakçı is a fascinating man operating at a fascinating time in the history of his home country, Turkey.
Born in 1967 to a crowded family, at the age of 11 Sevan was apprenticed to a jewellery designer in the Grand Bazaar of Istanbul, the world’s first mall (it’s almost 600 years old). He learned his craft from several “masters”, until in his 20s he decided to go it alone. His first pieces were copies of rings from magazines, made to order and requiring few of the many skills he’d picked up; then, around the turn of the millennium, he figured out a new...
Coming to a film festival near you, if you’re lucky, is this documentary about one of the world’s most famous jewellers. Counting people such as Catherine Zeta Jones, Elizabeth Hurley, Celine Dion and Liv Tyler among his more notable clients, Sevan Bıçakçı is a fascinating man operating at a fascinating time in the history of his home country, Turkey.
Born in 1967 to a crowded family, at the age of 11 Sevan was apprenticed to a jewellery designer in the Grand Bazaar of Istanbul, the world’s first mall (it’s almost 600 years old). He learned his craft from several “masters”, until in his 20s he decided to go it alone. His first pieces were copies of rings from magazines, made to order and requiring few of the many skills he’d picked up; then, around the turn of the millennium, he figured out a new...
- 9/4/2018
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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