SummaryMoshe Rynecki (1881-1943) was a prolific Warsaw-based artist who painted scenes of the Polish-Jewish community until he was murdered at Majdanek. After the Holocaust, Moshe’s wife was only able to recover a small fraction of his work, but unbeknownst to the family, many other pieces survived. For more than a decade his great-granddaughter, Elizab... Read More
Directed By:Elizabeth Rynecki
Written By:Josh Peterson, Elizabeth Rynecki
Chasing Portraits
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Apr 26, 2019
75
This is a very personal documentary that occasionally has the intentional feel of a home movie.
Apr 21, 2019
63
Its major contribution, as one museum curator suggests, may be to bring the works of Moshe Rynecki back into prominence.
Apr 25, 2019
60
Chasing Portraits is small and subtle, with some missed opportunities and occasionally inexpert filmmaking. But it’s not an insignificant effort, and Ms. Rynecki’s cause is admirable.
May 16, 2019
50
It’s a heavy lift that, to do her efforts justice, required a more dimensional, broadly contextual and, for a movie about art, visually adept depiction than first-time filmmaker Rynecki has managed.
Apr 25, 2019
50
Too often coming across as an elaborate home movie, the doc would have benefited from its story being told by a more experienced filmmaker who was less emotionally involved in the proceedings.
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