The First Monday in May

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The First Monday in May is a documentary about the staging of a fashion exhibition and gala at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Directed by Andrew Rossi (Ivory Tower), the film opened this year’s Tribeca Film Festival to generally positive reviews.

An unprecedented look behind the scenes of two of New York’s premier cultural events, The First Monday in May follows the creation of “China: Through The Looking Glass,” the most attended fashion exhibition in the history of The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the 2015 Met Gala, the star-studded fundraiser that celebrates the opening of the exhibition. Acclaimed filmmaker Andrew Rossi (Page One: Inside the New York Times) follows Anna Wintour, Artistic Director of Condé Nast and editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine and longtime chair of the Met Gala, and Andrew Bolton, the iconoclastic curator who conceived the groundbreaking show, for eight months as they prepare for an evening they hope will take the worlds of art and fashion by storm.

The film came into being after Rossi was invited to meet with Wintour. “They were fans of one of my earlier films, Page One. I threw my hat in the ring as someone who might want to work on this film. After meeting with Met Director Tom Campbell and Andrew Bolton, they called me back and we started shooting. I filmed a preliminary meeting between Anna Wintour, Andrew Bolton and the exhibition’s artistic director, filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai, and it just sort of took off from there.”

The First Monday in May is rated PG.