Beauty Is Embarrassing

Name: Beauty Is Embarrassing
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 7, 2012
Rating: 72
Cast: Mimi Pond, Wayne White

2012

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Future You Pictures | Release Date: September 7, 2012

Starring: Mimi Pond, Wayne White

Summary: Beauty Is Embarrassing chronicles the vaulted highs and the crushing lows of a commercial artist struggling to find peace and balance between his work and his art. Acting as his own narrator, Wayne guides us through his life using moments from his latest creation: a hilarious, biographical one-man show. The pieces are drawn fromBeauty Is Embarrassing chronicles the vaulted highs and the crushing lows of a commercial artist struggling to find peace and balance between his work and his art. Acting as his own narrator, Wayne guides us through his life using moments from his latest creation: a hilarious, biographical one-man show. The pieces are drawn from performances at venues in Tennessee, New York and Los Angeles including the famous Roseland Ballroom and the Largo Theater. (Future You Pictures)… Expand

Director: Neil Berkeley

Genre(s): Documentary

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Andy Webster

Sep 6, 2012

The creativity grows like kudzu in Beauty Is Embarrassing, Neil Berkeley's enlightening and often hilarious portrait of the Los Angeles artist Wayne White. And it yields a thousand blossoms. Read full review

Elise Nakhnikian

Sep 4, 2012

Neil Berkeley's documentary is as puckish as its subject, so steeped in artist Wayne White's creative juices that it makes you want to go straight home and start making things. Read full review

Kimberley Jones

Oct 4, 2012

The film is studded with stirring moments of surprise. Read full review

Farran Smith Nehme

Sep 7, 2012

Those with a high tolerance for the ultimate four-letter word, and a love for eccentrics, will be entertained by both White and his art. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Sep 8, 2012

As one observer here aptly - and non-hyperbolically - sums it up, White is "a founding father of the current state of pop art." Read full review

Mike Scott

Sep 28, 2012

The result is an artist profile that doesn't feel like the standard, stuffy artist profile. Instead, Beauty is Embarrassing is an entertaining whimsy that, like White, never takes itself too seriously, doesn't overstay its welcome and never, ever underestimates the value of a chuckle. Read full review

Ty Burr

Oct 18, 2012

An amiable if not especially urgent celebration of the life and work of Wayne White. Read full review

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