Amir Bar-Lev, Anthony Brunelli, Elizabeth Cohen
A four-year-old girl, whose paintings are compared to Kandinsky, Pollock and even Picasso, has sold $300,000 dollars worth of paintings. Is she a genius of abstract expressionism, a tiny charlatan or ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: March 4, 2008
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September 30, 2009Amir Bar-Lev strikes gold with this documentary. A very capable film maker gets his break when a twist in the story he is covering reveals a compelling mystery. This is a doc about so much more than a little girls paintings and its text book perfect film making!
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August 10, 2009The parents tried to PROVE that they kid does its own drawnings...and even set up cameras, but you can see them showing her to paint here, paint there...I think this is a fraud. I also think abstract art is bs! Just watch and judge it yourself.
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November 28, 2008This is an interesting documentary which raises some larger issues about the art world (second doc in a row I've watched about "art world" following Who the $##% is Jackson Pollock?). The director can be accused of not being direct enough in his final confrontation of the parents...( read more)
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July 30, 2008What could have been a mature and slightly satirical look into the world of modern art suddenly plunges into a deep dark mystery. The film casts so much doubt over who creates the paintings it seems obvious Marla did not do them herself. Even the families own evidence shows her c...( read more)
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October 30, 2009OK documentary.Makes you wanna buy your kids Some paint,An easel,Some brushes & whatever & see what they come up with & try & sell it to some rich people
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September 18, 2009What threatens to be a gratingly cute fluff piece about an artsy tyke turns out to be a fascinatingly self-reflexive commentary on authorship, media manipulation of public opinion, and the absurdity of treating childishly simple modern art as commerce.
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May 8, 2009interesting but I don't believe that the girl actually painted all of those. someone probably tampered them
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April 5, 2009Really good. There is a shift half way though the movie as the scandal breaks and the film maker needs to shift focus to what might be going on underneath it all.
As I watch more and more docs I have noticed that there are not many that can tell the story objectively. This one ...( read more) -
February 12, 2009I'm still not sure of my opinion about who actually painted Marla's paintings.
Critic Reviews
November 2, 2007
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
October 19, 2007
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
My Kid Could Paint That keeps us intrigued by the questions, long after its last shot of Marla. full review
October 19, 2007
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The truth lurking beneath My Kid Could Paint That is that your kid couldn't paint that. full review
October 12, 2007
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
For parents, My Kid Could Paint That functions as a mirror, prompting us to wonder at what point we should draw the line and close the door. When the national media camp out in our living rooms? When ... full review
October 5, 2007
Kyle Smith, New York Post
The opportunities for a satirical comedy are largely missed by filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev, who does a lot of first-person hand-wringing about his methods. That is both a distraction and an indication that... full review
October 5, 2007
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
An intimate, sometimes unsettling family drama.
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