Missing Victor Pellerin is an enigmatic and utterly compelling story of incinerated art, unbridled egos and exotic plants.
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05/02/07
Missing Victor Pellerin (2006)
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Synopsis: The life and career of painter Victor Pellerin is examined in this film. Director Sophie Deraspe talks to friends and colleagues of the talented artist, who disappeared after destroying his work in 1990. [More]
Genre: Education/General Interest
Director: Sophie Deraspe
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Deraspe's film begins as a mystery and becomes a razor-sharp dissection of the self-promotion, pretension and deeply cynical inner workings of the art world.
05/04/07
In 1990, a successful Quebec artist, Victor Pellerin, burned every last one of his paintings, then vanished. Fifteen years later, a clever young woman named Sophie Deraspe decided to make a documentary about this strange occurrence.
05/02/07
An uncanny, uncategorizable film, neither doc- nor mockumentary, Sophie Deraspe's debut feature shares more in common with Nabokov and Borges than recent fake-docs.
05/01/07
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