Missing Victor Pellerin

Name: Missing Victor Pellerin
Genre: Biography
Released: May 2, 2007
Rating: 68

2007

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Release Date: May 2, 2007

Summary: In 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. (AtopiaIn 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 Distribution)… Expand

Director: Sophie Deraspe

Genre(s): Biography

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TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

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. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

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. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

An enigmatic and utterly compelling story of incinerated art, unbridled egos and exotic plants. Read full review

Charles Petersen

The result is a satire that somehow doesn't feel satirical: comic yet humane. Read full review

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CaillusR.

May 8, 2007

Very good and refreshing film about seduction, business, and true meaning of Art. Also, I must say I am very suprised at your rating system. I belive Village Voice really liked the film, comparing it to Borges and Nabokov. Not at all 60, more like 80+.

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