Reviews for this film from our members:
- David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
- Excerpt: Teller and company have no desire to reveal Vermeer as a hoax. On the contrary, they aim to celebrate his ingenuity as an artist and to shine a light on largely ignored ways that art can be art.
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: A deft and fascinating documentary about art, technology, and the creative spirit.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: The conclusion is jaw dropping, the feat remarkable.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Fine art & technology combine in the intriguing documentary abnot how an obsessive amateur was able to recreate an astonishingly precise replica of a Dutch masterpiece.
- Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- Matthew Lucas @ From the Front Row
- Excerpt: As is, there’s just not enough here to justify a full length documentary, filling in gaps with long stretches of Jenison painting and building his sets; time which could have been better used by examining the implications of Jenison’s work that are so blithely glossed over.
- [New – 4/3/14] | Jonathan Richards @ jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: Vermeer, Jenison hypothesizes, might not have had all that much artistic training. “It’s possible that he was more of an experimenter, more of a tinkerer, more of a geek.” Vermeer, of course, whatever his methods, did not have a Vermeer to copy.
- Tom Santilli @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: If you’re going to have to learn something, it should always be this engaging.
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: An irresistibly engaging documentary that might be described as a lab experiment in art history presented with Las Vegas-style showmanship.
