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- 2020
- Elevation Pictures
- 1 h 46 m
- 2020
- Elevation Pictures
- 1 h 46 m
Summary Desperate for answers about the theft of her 2 paintings, a Czech artist seeks out and befriends the career criminal who stole them. After inviting her thief to sit for a portrait, the two form an improbable relationship and an inextricable bond that will forever link these lonely souls.
Directed By: Benjamin Ree
- 2020
- Elevation Pictures
- 1 h 46 m
- 2020
- Elevation Pictures
- 1 h 46 m
The Painter and the Thief
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Summary Desperate for answers about the theft of her 2 paintings, a Czech artist seeks out and befriends the career criminal who stole them. After inviting her thief to sit for a portrait, the two form an improbable relationship and an inextricable bond that will forever link these lonely souls.
Directed By: Benjamin Ree
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So compelling is The Painter and the Thief — and ultimately so powerfully moving in its faith in human resilience — that you may not notice the illuminating ways in which Ree plays with form and viewpoint. The documentary won a special jury award for creative storytelling at the most recent Sundance Film Festival and it comes to streaming video as one of the year’s most affecting and subtly radical movie experiences.
It is an almost startlingly intimate film, following this strange relationship between these two, as they go through the challenges of life.
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Fascinating, confounding and continually surprising.
The oddity of the crime lay in the value of the art — relatively low, except to the artist, a young Czech woman who was neither famous nor rich. The beauty of the film lies in the bond she forges with one of the thieves after they’re found by police and sentenced to 75 days in prison. Questions of identity haunt both the victim and the perp — not their names or addresses, but who they are in the farthest reaches of their psyches, and who they may become.
The Painter and the Thief is a fascinating, perplexing, occasionally annoying but always involving chronicle of a truly crazy relationship.
You can be successfully creative or you can end taking a much more crooked path. As The Painter and the Thief so ably demonstrates, your life is worthy or compassion and consideration regardless.
Intimate and involving as it can be, The Painter and the Thief increasingly leaves the impression that Kysilkova and Nordland are holding something back.
Production Company
Medieoperatørene,
VGTV,
Tremolo Productions
Release Date May 22, 2020
Duration 1 h 46 m
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Awards
Gullruten
• 4 Wins & 6 Nominations
Amanda Awards, Norway
• 3 Wins & 5 Nominations
Nordic Docs
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
