SummaryIn 1990, Victor Pellerin, a young painter and darling of the art scene, burns his work and disappears without a trace. Fifteen years later, the documentary filmmaker Sophie Deraspe revisits the events that led to his disappearance, meeting the people who were intimate with Victor, and who had succumbed to his troubled personality. (Atopia Distri... Read More
Directed By:Sophie Deraspe
Written By:Sophie Deraspe
Missing Victor Pellerin
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75
We also begin to suspect that Deraspe is putting us on - that this is a mockumentary, not a documentary. About the time that a bunch of grown men and women - stoned and drunk - start playing spin the bottle (spin the bottle!), we're certain that she's tricking us. Or is she? It's anybody's guess.
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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. But her greatest achievement is painting the business of art as venal, corrupt, mendacious and built on false surfaces without suggesting that art itself is a form of glorious deception.
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An enigmatic and utterly compelling story of incinerated art, unbridled egos and exotic plants.
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The result is a satire that somehow doesn't feel satirical: comic yet humane.
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Production Company:
- Les Films Siamois
Release Date:May 2, 2007
Duration:1 h 42 m
Tagline:Art is a lie
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Awards
Montréal Festival of New Cinema
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
