Quebec Film Week:
Missing Victor Pellerin
Presented by San Francisco Film Society
- When
- Event has passed (Wed Dec 10, 2008 - Sat Dec 13, 2008)
- Cost
- $10 - $12.50
- Tags
- Movies, Foreign, Film Festivals
Description
Sophie Deraspe, 2006Victor Pellerin has been missing for 15 years. After a short burst of fame in the Quebec art scene, he reclaimed all of his paintings, set them aflame and disappeared. Or did he? Sophie Deraspe’s sprightly genre-busting hybrid follows a group of aging bohemian Montreal artists as they prepare for an anniversary show centered around Pellerin’s absent work. Like Orson Welles in his film F for Fake—also a multilayered look at the international art world—Deraspe calls our willingness to trust the documentary form into question and does so with a cutting sense of humor. Michael Atkinson, in a recent issue of Film Comment, writes that the film’s “evasive zigzag around ‘reality’ serves as a deft backhand slap at the whimsical, emperor’s-new-clothes absurdity of the international art world.”
More Info
- Link
- http://www.sffs.org/events/films/film_missing_victor_pelle.h...
- Call
- 925.866.9559 (Box Office)
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