Chasing Portraits

Name: Chasing Portraits
Genre: History, Documentary
Released: April 26, 2019
Duration: 78 min
Rating: 56
Cast: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Carla Shapreau, Edward Napiorkowski, Elinor Kroitoru, Piotr Rypson

2019

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First Run Features | Release Date: April 26, 2019 | Not Rated

Starring: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Carla Shapreau, Edward Napiorkowski, Elinor Kroitoru, Piotr Rypson, Renata Piatkowska, Shula Eliaz, Tyler Knowlton, Violetta Bachur, Yehudit Shendar

Summary: Moshe 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,Moshe 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, Elizabeth Rynecki, has searched for the missing art, with remarkable and unexpected success. Spanning three generations, Chasing Portraits is a deeply moving narrative of the richness of one man’s art, the devastation of war, and one woman’s unexpected path to healing. [First Run Features]… Expand

Director: Elizabeth Rynecki

Genre(s): History, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 78 min

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RogerEbert.com Odie Henderson

Apr 26, 2019

This is a very personal documentary that occasionally has the intentional feel of a home movie. Read full review

Pat Brown

Apr 21, 2019

Its major contribution, as one museum curator suggests, may be to bring the works of Moshe Rynecki back into prominence. Read full review

Ken Jaworowski

Apr 25, 2019

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. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Apr 25, 2019

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. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

May 16, 2019

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. Read full review

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