My Kid Could Paint That DVD (2007)

My Kid Could Paint That details

Format:	12 DVD
Starring:	Anthony Brunelli, Amir Bar-Lev, Laura Olmstead, Michael Kimmelman, Elizabeth Cohen
Director:	Amir Bar-Lev
Genre:	Documentary - General
Studio:	SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT

DVD 1 disc

Name	Discs
My Kid Could Paint That	12 Feature

DVD Information

Run time:	1 hour 20 minutes
Rental release:	19 May 2008
Main languages:	English

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Open Ended - Just British Politeness

By Waino (9 reviews) from Swindon , 03 Jun 2008

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Cutting to the chase after you watch this you're left in no doubt that she didn't paint the 'more famous original paintings'. Bar-Lev leaves this documentary open ended; you get the feeling he did this as he feels to come to a conclusion would be unfair to the Olmsteads; in the sense they gave him unfettered access: although the conclusion is pretty obvious.

Whether the Olmsteads intended to acquire this much publicity is debatable what is not is they have certainly milked the situation for all its worth. Not a great documentary but interesting none the less and really is an indictment of the art world and what art really means.
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Not even worth a 'low priority'

By Trickpony (56 reviews) from Edinburgh , 24 Nov 2012

The fact (or not) that this film is about a true story, doesn't redeem it in any way. If you're going to make a spoof documentary, at least *try* to make it convincing. Blair Witch managed it on a shoestring.

The basic idea has every chance of actually happening (I've yet to be convinced, however, that it did with these particular characters) and it did throw up some less than flattering views on the modern art world, but MKCPT was just so shoddily put together - I could act better than that, and I can't act. I could direct better than that, and I can't direct.

Like one of the main themes running through the film, MKCPT was probably made to make fun of it's viewers, fooling us into believing something that isn't true. I saw through it in the first 5 minutes. Don't even put it on your 'low priority' list.
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Thought provoking

By Kittikaz (24 reviews) from Lincolnshire , 10 Nov 2010

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As an artist myself, but not really able to understand abstract art, and with no prior knowledge of the little girl - it didn't appear to reach the UK shores, I was fascinated by what this documentary would be about.

I was on the fence during the main movie, but definitely had some doubts as to who genuinely did create the paintings.

What swung it for me though was watching the Special Features, which shows updates and more indepth research.

The 'artist's statement', supposedly by the 4 year old made extremely uncomfortable reading. Her current website carefully hides any info as to who she is - customers may not know what they're buying into and subsequent research on the internet shows this is a controversy we may never know the real answer to until Marla herself is old enough to speak of it.

But lets all hope this hasn't affected her too much by then....
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My Kid Could Paint That

By speedycritic (17 reviews) from Cardiff , 31 Dec 2009

This documentary is a sober portrait of the parents of a supposed child prodigy and the manner in which the media can exploit the story for a range of ulterior motives. The resultant controversy is brilliantly analysed by the film-maker who attempts above all to maintain the camera's objective portrayal of the main protagonists. This is achieved while the latter's own words and actions provide each member of the audience with the means to arrive at their own interpretation..
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Sits on the fence too much

By brokenking (255 reviews) from Bristol , 22 Sep 2009

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Child prodigies can make for very interesting subjects for documentaries. Unfortunately, the main people interviewed in this film are the parents, the kid in qustion being too young to interview in depth. There are interesting story elements that crop up as a result of how the locals used the girl's fame.

The only real revelation that this documentary comes up with is that art is only worth what you're willing to pay for it, regardless of who created it. And to be honest I'm not sure that its worth sitting through the whole film to hear that.
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.....In one of those unforgivable moments

By Sebastian362 (46 reviews) from England , 20 Sep 2009

Marla continues to plead, ..'Join in daddy, please draw me a face'. Her father turns to the camera and says, No Marla...you paint for me dear.. She gives up this time and becomes uninterested with this lost father-daughter moment. Why, Oh why would a father NOT want to share such a moment of creative intimacy with his own daughter ? What agenda or set of circumstance governs this unforgivable moment......A desperately manipulative film, on all the wrong levels...

If anyone knows anything about Art as commercialism, basic colour theory, abstract composition, 'primativatism', 'spontaneous' form and young children then this film is most unoriginal. However, to hang a child's paintings up in a pristine 'Gallery' with all it's significance and family voyeurism is more an essay on pop culture & post modernism and less about the truths behind uncovering or NOT a child protege
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