The Worst Film Ever

Just perfect...

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

The most fascinating about this documentary about a piece of painting is that it never touches upon the subject of why the painting contains what i does, why Vermeer decided on the setting and the players that he did. And the documentary does not argue that it is pointless to discuss such a thing, but it just isn't relevant to the topic of the documentary. The documentary is not about Vermeer's painting.I have no horse in the race of how Vermeer painted his paintings, and if I did, I would not consider this documentary as a proper source for such information. It's clearly biased, and does not try to convey the other side of the argument (but states multiple times that there is one). It's not as evidence this documentary is interesting. Tim's painting, and his study of it, is (as they say) more like evidence, and I'm sure it will be examined and discussed by scholars and experts.In a sense, the documentary is not even about Tim's Vermeer. It's about Tim. Seeing how he is able to completely put his mind into something, and has the willpower and motivation to pull it through, is inspiring. And Penn's comment on the line between artist and inventor is really what I find this documentary being all about.

This flick is a treasure box of commentary. It's about the nexus of tech and art; the power of intuition; the validation of genius-as-perseverance; a slow-burn reminder of the value of doing over fantasizing; of materiality as a virtue, which winds up being a sort of metaphor for the Tao, you could suppose; and it's a thought-provoking juxtaposition of the trackable immediacy of our time against the frustratingly ephemeral nature of history.And there's so much more. This story of a man's obsessive pursuit of a provisional truth of art history explodes into ponderings on the nature of modern American commerce--and not without a nod to class.And there's even more! The film, itself, also so-happens to achieve a grail of documentary; it puts you there, and makes you feel like you're sharing the excitement, the wearying obsessions over detail, the running revulsion over the sense that, at any moment, this massive effort could hit any of a number of cul-de-sacs, producing an awesomely bizarre kind of abject failure.I hope this gets across to you that _Tim's Vermeer_ isn't an ordinary documentary. For one thing, the subject matter--a man's ardent, hands-on pursuit of a provisional artistic truth--gets tracked in real time, albeit artfully boiled down to a 70-odd minute exposition. And that, in itself, is a bit of a wonder; that a 70+ minute presentation has you sweating bullets over a man's determination to forge a painting, and discover something beyond painting in the process.It's definitely worth watching.

This is an extremely well-made documentary about one man's curiosity, his relentless pursuit of an answer, and ultimately the possible solution of one of the art world's mysteries. But is that enough to recommend watching this movie? Not really. At times, this movie is as exciting as literally watching the paint on the canvas dry.I applaud the dedication of the subject to re-create the exact supplies, tools, and environment used by Vermeer. However, his efforts to demystify the artist's creation does not do anything other than to propose that the art is nothing more than a something that can be created by a dispassionate exercise of skills. What his recreation misses is the art of creating a scene, the passion of a painter to express something original, and the genius of capturing it all.To view my other movie reviews, please visit:https://nomorewastedmovienights.wordpress.com

If you, like me, enjoy technology and creativity. This is a must see Documentary about a man who set off to make a 'Vermeer'. With no particular skills, but with time and money to spend, he reinvented and discovered the Artist's way. For me the 'revealing' of Vermeer was far from a disappointment. Instead for me it brings Vermeer straight into the age of Enlightenment.Art, at it's best for me is always a combination of smart and ingenious, it has to do with craftsmanship, with guts and persistence and a bit of Eureka. During the Age of Enlightenment in the Netherlands of the 17th Century, the two disciplines - Science and Art - just had to meet. As Jenison points out in the Documentary, this is exactly what happened here. But maybe there is even more..Born in 1632, Vermeer shares the same birth year with another famous man called Baruch Spinoza. Spinoza worked in The Hague, a city that is only a stone throw away from Delft, which being the city where Johannes Vermeer lived, worked and died.As Tim Jenison so brilliantly shows, lenses and mirrors play an important role in the work of Vermeer. Not only on his paintings, but also in the way he produced these paintings.Wouldn't it be a great thought that Baruch Spinoza, who worked as a lens maker for a living, contributed as such to the paintings of Johannes Vermeer. Maybe they even talked about light, perspective and geometry during the tedious grinding of the lens. And that picture just made my day :-)