Jean-Michel Basquiat (2010)
3.7 of 5 from 45 ratings
1h 27min
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- Synopsis:
A film by Jean Michel Vecchiet In the early 80's, a new artistic avant-garde began to sweep across the walls and streets of New York with the emergence of a 15-year-old Brooklyn teenager who would change the course of art history. Son of a Haitian father and a Puerto Rican mother, Jean-Michel Basquiat became the first great black neo-expressionist painter to initiate Occidental Modern Art to the rest of the world. Working at a dazzling speed, Basquiat accomplished his work in less than 7 years; like a modern age Rimbaud, his work bears all the marks of youth. Filmmaker Jean-Michel Vecchiet constructs a dramatic narrative invoking a maelstrom of emotions, a whirlwind of images, music and testimonies to examine Basquait s journey towards glory - and death. Alternating between interviews, archive footage, period films with friends, photographs, paintings by the artist, negatives and images of the city, Vecchiet s chronology mirrors the pace and dazzling success of the painter during this electric period in 80's New York. - Actors:
- Bruno Bischofberger, Kai Eric, Michael Holman, Kaidin Monique Le Houelleur, Suzanne Mallouk, Maripol, Glenn O'Brien, Rick Prol, Nicholas Taylor, Ouattara Watts
- Directors:
- Jean-Michel Vecchiet
- Writers:
- Pierre-Paul Puljiz, Jean-Michel Vecchiet
- Aka:
- Basquiat, Une Vie
- Studio:
- Illuminations
- Genres:
- Documentary, Special Interest
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