Chuck Close (2007)

Late director Marion Cajori’s documentary takes good advantage of intimate access to the iconic artist in an effort to chronicle the fascinating methodology behind his work.

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12/17/07

Through a series of vignettes, interviews with Close's friends and family, the filmmaker reveals the soul of the portraitist.

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12/31/07

Although the painting montages become somewhat burdensome in their repetition, and an epilogue feels academic in every sense, when Cajori finally pulls away from the finished portrait, the sense of a job done to brimming satisfaction is acutely twofold.

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01/02/08