Art and Craft (2014)
Not Rated
Starring Mark Landis, John Gapper
Directed by Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman and Mark Becker
The Story:
Mark Landis is an excellent painter. He's so good, he's spent the last 30 years bequeathing master forgeries to libraries, museums and galleries over the years. John Gapper is one of the curators that was duped. He's on a quest to expose Landis for the fraud that he is.
Sounds like a pretty cool con caper, right?
I thought so too!
I mean, just looking at the poster, it harkens back to Catch Me If You Can and this true story seemed like it had all the elements for a can't miss documentary.
Boy, was I wrong.
The material is served up with no charisma whatsoever.
It doesn't help that Landis himself is a quiet, unassuming guy. The only thing he's ever done wrong is give away paintings that aren't real to museums, libraries, etc. over the last 3 decades.
He never took a dime for anything, therefore, he has technically committed no crimes.
Aside from Gapper, nobody else seemed to care.
After less than 20 minutes, I realized I didn't really care either, and clicked this one off and sent it back.
It's streaming on Amazon Prime if you want to give it a try.
Final Grade: D
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