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Surely people didn't line up at dawn to get in — and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the works of an artist who had never held a show, sold a work or received a review? Surely not if his work looked like art school ripoffs of the familiar styles of famous artists?

Even while I sat spellbound during this film, that's what I was asking myself. But Thierry Guetta surely did. His art exhibition was written up in a cover story in L. Weekly on June 12, Nor would they cast Guetta, indubitably a real person, as himself. The film depends entirely on Guetta, a combination TV pitchman, a cartoon Frenchman and a chatty con man. Its footage really has been edited from a decade of tapes made clandestinely while L. Guetta fearlessly followed them right out into ledges and helped them carry supplies to places a human fly might balk at.

All the time he's talking, talking, telling his life story and of his hero worship for these artists. There are all kinds of graffiti. Much of it is ugly defacement, the kind of territorial marking a dog does so much more elegantly. And the rest is history.

Today, Guetta says he and Banksy remain friends. In fact, he credits Banksy for helping him overcome the compulsion. As to whether Banksy — whose art has been spotted around L. Photographer Gordon Parks inspired a new generation of artists. Here are some of their stories. All Sections.

About Us. B2B Publishing. Business Visionaries. Hot Property. Times Events. Times Store. He proceeds to play slightly dumb and remote allowing those that he is having a poke at to continue BEING dumb and remote. You, Banksy mate not that it matters to you gained my respect straight away! But the real star of the piece as created by Banksy is Thierry Guetta A superb caricature for the modern age If he's really like he is portrayed then he's a passionate groupie at best without any artistic ability whatsoever Hell, it doesn't matter as Guetta does a good deal of his talking whilst overlooked by a portrait of the Laughing Cavalier What can I say but this is a portrayal of a distorted art market and the plain meaninglessness of pop-art?

Now that everyone can have their fifteen minutes of fame I guess the thing to de-construct is fame itself I could go on but it'd waste your time with my idiocy and isn't that what this film is about?! Take a leaf out of Banksy's Beckett-like debut not only has he Waited for Godot HE stencilled him Think for yourself and create your own reality!

Definite must watch for everyone in my opinion. Details Edit. Release date May 14, United States. United Kingdom. English French. Disneyland Park, Disneyland Resort - S. Paranoid Pictures. Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 27 minutes. Dolby Digital. Two cops kissing scans more as laddish gay-panic than any subversive anti-police statement. What is the oft-reproduced bouquet-tossing rioter trying to say to us?

A lot of art lovers have woken up to this notion over the past decade, as Banksy has turned into a literal punch line on Twitter.