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  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • SeeThink Films
  • 1 h 21 m
  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • SeeThink Films
  • 1 h 21 m

Summary Directed by her grandson Andrew Neel, this feature-length documentary tells the story of American painter Alice Neel (1900-1984). Exploring the struggles she faces as a woman artist, a single mother, and a painter who defied convention, the film males use of extensive textual, photographic, and filmic archives. [SeeThink Productions]

Directed By: Andrew Neel

Written By: Andrew Neel

  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • SeeThink Films
  • 1 h 21 m
  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • SeeThink Films
  • 1 h 21 m

Alice Neel

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary Directed by her grandson Andrew Neel, this feature-length documentary tells the story of American painter Alice Neel (1900-1984). Exploring the struggles she faces as a woman artist, a single mother, and a painter who defied convention, the film males use of extensive textual, photographic, and filmic archives. [SeeThink Productions]

Directed By: Andrew Neel

Written By: Andrew Neel

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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71% Positive
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14% Mixed
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14% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
60
71% Positive
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14% Mixed
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14% Negative
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80
The finely crafted Alice Neel is at once tribute, investigative journalism and messy family drama.
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75
Andrew Neel's fascinating but troubling documentary about his famous grandmother is more than a mere biography of an important 20th-century artist: It's also an intimate portrait of a family member that questions whether or not "great artist" and "good parent" can ever be combined in the same person.
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70
Much like Neel's portraits, the film is marked by audacious understatement, neither whitewashing nor sensationalizing the artist's sterling achievements and messy personal life.
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70
It achieves the documentary format’s basic goal of illuminating history while also demonstrating, through filmmaking choices, how an artist’s style reveals his or her personality.
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63
For all the juicy storytelling, Alice Neel remains, in this film, a cipher: brash, grandmotherly, and beyond understanding.
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50
Comes across as a cautionary tale.
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30
Neel is a compelling subject, but she's more alive in one of her paintings than in all of the voluminous video footage her grandson thrusts upon us.
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Production Company SeeThink Films
Release Date Apr 20, 2007
Duration 1 h 21 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.aliceneelfilm.com/
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Awards

Newport Beach Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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