This documentary is not what I thought it would be. Billed as a work by Banksy, the infamous secretive British street artist, but the movie neither goes any way to divulging his identity, or revealing much at all about this over-hyped man who revels in the excesses of the notoriety that accompanies all his exploits. Instead it’s a film that Banksy has made about the incredibly odd Thierry Guetta who starts out as a mere observer filming any street artist who will allow him to tag along, and who ends up some 10 years later as one of the top celebrated and successful ‘artists’ in LA.
As the story unfolds it seems all so totally unbelievable that you think you are participating in some hoax, but in the end you do decide (albeit reluctantly) that although Guetta’s talent as an original artist is as fake as his claims, his journey to this point in his life is very real.
R.T.V. Credit then to the anonymous Banksy who has crafted this all into an excellent and fascinating movie with incredible style and finesse. It’s a story worth telling, and he has told it very well.
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