U3A Cinema Group shows The Painter and the Thief
14 Feb, 2021 10:32 PM
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Norwegian director Benjamin Ree at The Painter and the Thief premiere during the 2020 Sundance Film Festival in Utah. Photo / Getty Images
Wanganui Midweek
U3A Cinema Group s first offering for 2021 is an unusual but remarkable documentary recording the development of a relationship between a painter and a thief.
Norwegian director Benjamin Ree invested three years in making this film.
The painter, Barbora Kysilkova, has two paintings stolen from an exhibition she is mounting. The thief, Karl-Bertil Nordland, is quickly brought to justice.
Asked by Kysilkova why he stole the paintings, Nordland s response leads to the artist requesting permission to paint the drug addled petty criminal.