Baselitz talks to Baselitz.
Hans Peter Schwerfel's formidable documentary is based on a long friendship,
"thirty years of observing an artist like no other",
that is to say
"non-conformist, stubborn, feisty, but also self-critical and generous".
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The perfection of images is almost cold when the tracking shot films the painted work without a breath.
Little or no music.
Life is in this single character, monument of contemporary painting, whose speech surprises with its combination of precision and erudition, self-knowledge, barely controlled ardor and lack of moderation.
The strength of this film is to confront, through the magic of cinema, the young Baselitz, handsome, dark, bearded, and the old Baselitz, very pink skin, smooth skull, very blue eyes, whose humor is flagrant, like the 'authority.
A unique dialogue
In sixty years of painting, this colossus, born Hans-Georg Kern in Deutschbaselitz in Saxony in 1938, has withstood the journey of history, he, the child of war whose youth was…
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