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Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
The film is sketchy as biography, but it proves an aging artist can still crackle with the electricity of youth.
Gerhard Richter Painting
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One of the world's greatest living painters, the German artist Gerhard Richter has spent over half a century experimenting with a tremendous range of techniques and ideas, addressing historical crises and mass media representation alongside explorations of chance occurences. The first glimpse inside his studio in decades offers a thrilling insight into the 79-year-old's creative process, juxtaposed with rare archival footage and intimate conversations with his critics and collaborators.
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The A.V. Club by Noel Murray
Just as a document of the sheer physical labor that goes into covering a giant canvas with color, Gerhard Richter Painting is never less than absorbing.
80
Village Voice
Gerhard Richter Painting artfully and convincingly immerses us into the world of one of the greatest, painting.
80
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
It is the achievement of Gerhard Richter Painting to shine a light on that hidden, private act as few other films have done.
80
Time Out by Joshua Rothkopf
You will see the man toiling and revising - killing off half-good ideas, struggling for clarity - and it's a routine well worth demystifying.
80
Village Voice by Aaron Hillis
Gerhard Richter Painting artfully and convincingly immerses us into the world of one of the greatest, painting.
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Delivers on the promise of its title. It shows us the world's most famous living painter, who turned 80 in February, at work with greater intimacy than any other film portrait of a contemporary artist provides.
75
St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Joe Williams
Mostly the movie is about process and perspective. Through the documentary lens, Richter's enigmatic paintings speak to us.
75
Boston Globe by Mark Feeney
The man we meet is intelligent and good-humored. "They do what they want," he says with a shrug, indicating a set of just-completed canvases. "I planned something different."
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San Francisco Chronicle by Kenneth Baker
Delivers on the promise of its title. It shows us the world's most famous living painter, who turned 80 in February, at work with greater intimacy than any other film portrait of a contemporary artist provides.
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The New York Times by Rachel Saltz
Gerhard Richter may not fling paint at the canvas, Jackson Pollock-style, but as Corinna Belz shows in her documentary Gerhard Richter Painting, he can be his own kind of action painter.
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The Playlist by Kevin Jagernauth
As a look behind the curtain at one of the contemporary art world's biggest names, 'Painting' succeeds as far providing a snapshot of who he is in the very immediate moment. For anyone looking for anything more about Richter, his craft or his insights, 'Painting' will prove to be a half-finished canvas.
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Slant Magazine
The end results are mixed but nevertheless scintillating and provocative enough to be worth taking seriously.
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