Condo Painting

A superb, instructive portrait of an artist at work.

A lively portrait of contemporary painter George Condo.

Has an edgy feel and a knockout soundtrack.

The film is otherwise a self-indulgent lark.

An 87-minute documentary on the life, work and thought of George Condo, a garrulous painter with a mischievous sense of humor and an eccentric, quasi-mystical view of art and the world it inhabits.

This is more than self-amused irony; this is kitsch as religion.

Might have made a tolerable five-minute "mockumentary," but it's apparently meant seriously.