Alice Neel offers a relatively objective view of a person who, seeing life as a sentence to be served, spent it doing the thing she loved.
05/15/08 04:51 PM
Alice Neel (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 9 Fresh: 6 Rotten:3 Average Rating: 6.4/10
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If the artist is an elusive target, the art is as sharp as a razor blade. The portraits are extraordinary.
04/18/08 05:13 PM
So many people speak onscreen, from so many folds of Neel's life, that, despite captions, the viewer feels taxed to keep straight their identities and relationships to Neel.
01/25/08 12:05 PM
For all the juicy storytelling, Alice Neel remains, in this film, a cipher: brash, grandmotherly, and beyond understanding.
08/24/07 03:48 PM
This documentary by the artist's grandson Andrew Neel, delves into the life and imagination of Alice Neel, the defiant pioneering, cutting edge, raunchy and prolific late artist.
05/19/07 02:02 PM
The effect is spirited rather than incriminating and, bolstered by Jonah Rapino’s contemplative score, as piercingly detailed as one of Alice’s mesmerizing portraits.
04/21/07 04:17 AM
[It's] 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.
04/20/07 02:47 PM
The fascinating documentary Alice Neel illuminates history while also demonstrating how an artist’s style reveals his or her personality.
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04/20/07 11:27 AM
Top Critic 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.
04/17/07 12:18 PM
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