The Guardian's sister paper, the Observer, partly funded this film about one of its greatest staff photographers, the peerless Jane Bown. She's a figure well-loved around the Guardian Media Group's headquarters, a backdrop for many of the interviews shown here. It is an excellent, intelligent, and unfussily traditional documentary about a gifted artist who photographed many key 20th-century figures, including Mick Jagger, John Betjeman, Queen Elizabeth and Samuel Beckett. Now 89, a frail and lucid Bown reflects on her life, revealing a troubled childhood that may have nourished her ability to connect with subjects. Others pay homage without gushing too much, and speak insightfully about aesthetics, technique, and the context of Bown's work. Directors Luke Dodd and Michael Whyte's austere filmmaking eminently suits the material, especially when they eschew all sound and just hold for several seconds on the pictures themselves, allowing viewers to find the silence in the images, to paraphrase a remark of Cartier-Bresson's.