The Man Who Stole Banksy

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Movie Info

It is 2007. Banksy and his team enter Bethlehem and the occupied territories of Palestine and start to leave their signature artwork across the West Bank walls. The anonymous, pacifist street artist and the country scarred by war on a constant search for consensus and solidarity: it should have been love at first sight. But something went wrong. Among the artworks Banksy and his team left in the streets of Bethlehem, one in particular, the mural of an Israeli soldier asking a donkey for its papers incites fury: it's one thing to enter the territory and start working without even introducing yourself to the community, but it's quite another to depict them as asses for all the world to see. Local taxi driver Walid steps in and with the support of the community and a water-jet stone cutter cuts out the offending wall. His declared aim: to put it on Ebay and sell it to the highest bidder. We follow the journey of that big piece of concrete from the dusty streets of Bethlehem, across the ocean, to posh western auction houses, where it is put on sale to private collectors. In a sense, that wall is our central character and through it we discover a much larger story, that of a secret art market of walls, stolen from around the world.

Rating:

NR
Genre:

Documentary
Directed By:

Marco Proserpio
Studio:

Sterven Pictures

Cast

Iggy Pop
as Narrator

Critic Reviews for The Man Who Stole Banksy

All Critics (3) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (1)

Its message is somewhat unclear, but the pairing of a seemingly trivial issue against a much more significant one-living in a place where one's citizenship is constantly scrutinized by occupying forces-illuminates both concerns.

April 25, 2019 | Full Review…

Kathleen Sachs
Chicago Reader
Top Critic
...The film is also successful in showing why Banksy decided to open the Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem in 2017.

June 13, 2018 | Full Review…

Kaleem Aftab
Cineuropa
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This is one documentary that needed one last pass through the editing room.

May 4, 2018 | Rating: 5/10 | Full Review…

Nathanael Hood
The Young Folks
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