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Chuck Close (2007)
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Reviews Counted:6
Fresh:6
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 56 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: After working on CHUCK CLOSE: A PORTRAIT IN PROGRESS, director Marion Cajori returns to her artist subject with this full-length documentary. Close's peers and friends, such as Robert Rauschenberg... After working on CHUCK CLOSE: A PORTRAIT IN PROGRESS, director Marion Cajori returns to her artist subject with this full-length documentary. Close's peers and friends, such as Robert Rauschenberg and Philip Glass, appear in interviews to discuss the career and impact of the painter. [More]
Starring: Philip Glass, Robert Rauschenberg
Starring: Philip Glass, Robert Rauschenberg
Director: Marion Cajori
Director: Marion Cajori
Producer: Marion Cajori
Composer: Philip Glass
Reviews for Chuck Close
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.
Through a series of vignettes, interviews with Close's friends and family, the filmmaker reveals the soul of the portraitist.
Chuck Close, about the painter, photographer and printmaker by the documentary filmmaker Marion Cajori, truly excels in its depiction of the physical process of making art.
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.
[Director Marion] Cajori's inventive, endlessly fascinating two-hour take draws freely from those prior studies, and from footage featuring Close and his contemporaries.
The result is a portrait that should interest art-savvy viewers and neophytes alike.
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