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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0736899119126
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, HiFi Sound, Subtitled, Surround Sound, THX, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: ARTE
Manufacturer: ARTE
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: ARTE
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 26, 2008
Running Time: 72 minutes
Sales Rank: 62443
Studio: ARTE
Theatrical Release Date: 1997
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Award-winning director Damian Pettigrew (Fellini: I'm a Born Liar) offers this definitive portrait of Balthus, a modern artist whose work was nonetheless out of step with most modern movements. His huge canvases with their thickly applied paint feature dreamy adolescent girls in enigmatic poses, resulting in an erotically charged and oddly disorienting style.
Pettigrew s beautifully composed documentary highlights the painter's complex creative process as he films the artist at work in his studio in the Swiss mountains. Famous friends and family members bare witness to the great artist s life in exclusive interviews, accompanied by photos by such luminaries as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Irving Penn. This is a rare insider s look at one of the 20th century s most intriguing painters.
Two shorts complement the film with interpretations of the great man s work and artistic process.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Gorgeous film
I watched this film with great interest and enjoyment. Shot in Super 16 over 12 months in the Swiss Alps, we get to visit Balthus's studio where he explains his typical working day and watch in fascination as he goes through the gestures of monitoring the work in progress with the help of a hand mirror and long spells of nicotine-fuelled meditations. His patient Japanese wife assists him in his work by grinding down and mixing the pigments with oil to create the artist's unique acrylic-free palette. ... Read More
Rating: - A wonderful examination of Balthus by an award-winning director!
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