The Painter and the Thief

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The Painter and the Thief uses the unlikely bond between a criminal and his victim as the canvas for a compelling portrait of compassion and forgiveness.

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Movie Info

Czech artist Barbora Kysilkova develops an unlikely friendship with the man who stole two of her paintings.
  • Genre:
    documentary
  • Original Language:
    English
  • Director:
    Benjamin Ree
  • Producer:
    Ingvil Giske
  • Release Date (Theaters):
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  • Production Co:
    Medieoperatørene, Tremolo Productions

Cast & Crew

Barbora Kysilkova
Benjamin Ree
Director
Ingvil Giske
Producer
Morgan Neville
Executive Producer
Kristoffer Kumar
Cinematographer
Robert Stengård
Film Editor
Uno Helmersson
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News & Interviews for The Painter and the Thief

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Critic Reviews for The Painter and the Thief

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  • Benjamin Ree's extraordinary documentary feels like a movie - there's a heist, villains who are not what they seem, scenes of striking intimacy and some fabulous twists.

    November 2, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    Ed Potton

    Times (UK)

  • Fascinating, confounding and continually surprising...

    November 1, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    Wendy Ide

    Observer (UK)

  • A beautiful story about extraordinary compassion.

    October 30, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    Leila Latif

    Little White Lies

  • What an engrossing film - and the gender reversal of a male muse inspiring a female painter has got to be one small step for art-world equality.

    October 30, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    Cath Clarke

    Guardian

  • The beauty of the film is that this is life lived, in all its infinite strangeness - a grand tableau of intercrossed destinies, friendship and disaster, fjords and gangsters.

    October 28, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    Danny Leigh

    Financial Times

  • One leaves The Painter and the Thief feeling eager to see what might happen if we were kinder and less self-interested, and convinced anew of the basic connection between paint and the human heart.

    June 4, 2020 | Full Review…

    Josephine Livingstone

    The New Republic
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