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Exit through the Gift Shop (2010)

Documentary | 87 minutes
3,70 845 votes

Genre: Documentary / Comedy

Duration: 87 minuten

Country: United States / United Kingdom

Directed by: Banksy

Stars: Banksy, Thierry Guetta and Rhys Ifans

IMDb score: 7,9 (69.793)

Releasedate: 5 March 2010

Exit through the Gift Shop plot

"The world's first Street Art disaster movie"

A movie about a man who tried to make a movie about Banksy. The eccentric French shop owner Thierry Guetta tries to capture the world of graffiti by following the most famous vandals during the creation of their work. We then follow Thierry as he tries to find and befriend Banksy. But the result is that the artist turns the camera to face the Frenchman. What follows is a story about the life of this man, who tried to capture the unfilmable and failed.

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eRCee

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Very cool, this. I am a total novice to street art and had never heard of Banksy. Only afterwards did I discover that Banksy is also the director of Exit through the gift shop by the way.

That said, while watching it, it never occurred to me that this documentary could be real. The ridiculously exaggerated interviews with Guetta confirmed to me that this is a mockumentary, mocking not only the phenomenon of commercialization of art but also the art form of the documentary itself.

And it does that very nicely, not least because street art lends itself well to figure in a movie, and if it is even the subject, you're chiseled.

However, due to the lack of personal (emotional) bonding, it remains for me just interesting entertainment, without being able to give high scores to this.

After the film, made curious by the comments here, I did some reading about Banksy and MBW, and if I can believe Wikipedia, Banksy himself insists that it is not a prank. I don't believe so yet, but I'm starting to have my doubts. But yes, a man who says the following about the Oscar nomination for Exit through the gift shop;

"This is a big surprise… I don't agree with the concept of award ceremonies, but I'm prepared to make an exception for the ones I'm nominated for. The last time there was a naked man covered in gold paint in my house, it was me" ... shouldn't be taken too seriously, I think.

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Ebenezer Scrooge

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Nobody knows who Banksy is, what he looks like, but he sure is talented. A kind of polar opposite of Paris Hilton. Recently, the cover of the Time Out New York featured a photo of the Belgian singer Stromae - half man, half woman - underneath it in large letters WHO THE HELL IS STROMAE? This can in fact also be said about the unknown Banksy, the Daft Punk of contemporary street art. Nice documentary about one of the greatest artists of the moment; philanthropist, political activist Banksy whose art is characterized by its anti-capitalist and humorous images that always provoke thought. The police are also often beaten, as in this artwork: a police officer with a dog on a leash , that affected blow-up poodle of bungler Jeff Koons. At the same time it is an insult to Koons - an low-blow as they call it in English - who once said that "abstraction and luxury are the watchdogs of the upper class".

My main problem with cops is that they do what they're told. They say 'Sorry mate, I'm just doing my job' all the fucking time.

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mrklm

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Until 1999, French-born Thierry Guetta owned a Los Angeles clothing store who obsessively filmed everything he saw and experienced. While on holiday in France, he discovers that his nephew is the artist who uses the pseudonym 'Space Invader' to create figures from the famous computer game from discarded Rubix cubes that he leaves behind in random places. His decision to help and film his nephew is the start of a project that has been ongoing for years, filming various creators of street art. Via via he even manages to film Banksy, but when he asks Thierry to convert the hundreds of hours of footage into a film, the project takes a completely different turn. Brilliant documentary is full of bizarre and surprising twists, always entertaining and at times downright hilarious, especially when it observes how insanely the art dealer's world works. Completely unique but absolutely unpretentious.

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